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Looking forward to giving the keynote address at this morning’s launch of the @SeeChangeIRL 9th annual #GreenRibbonIRL #EndTheStigma campaign.
The theme of this year’s campaign is Exclusion - a topic very close to my heart as minister with responsibility for social inclusion.
The theme of this year’s campaign is Exclusion - a topic very close to my heart as minister with responsibility for social inclusion.
With every campaign & with every #GreenribbonIRL worn publicly there are increased chances to #EndTheStigma of mental illness & start conversations. With this campaign there is more opportunity than ever to really turn around how we think and talk about mental illness.
We have all now shared a mentally & emotionally traumatic experience of living through a pandemic. Obviously that trauma different for everyone, but I believe that in 1 way or another everyone has had a traumatic experience in the past 18 months simply by living through pandemic.
I’ll be joining my colleague @rodericogorman to speak in the Dáil shortly on Direct Provision and the welcome changes set out recently in the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision.
Statements start at 10am
Statements start at 10am
With White Paper we published in Feb, our intention is to create a new system of support for International Protection applicants that’s fundamentally different from current model. A system that meets needs of applicants & enables them to contribute positively to Irish life.
The new system will be different from the current Direct Provision system as the profit motive will be replaced with an approach that will be centred on the primacy of nurturing the humanity and rights of people.
I’ll be giving the closing address to the #SIFF2021 shortly after a week of really great engagement and discussion on issues of poverty & social inclusion
I opened this forum on Monday by noting that we had come together to talk about our collective experiences of either working with people experiencing poverty and exclusion or to share personal experiences of living directly with poverty & exclusion.
#SIF2021
#SIF2021
I stressed in my opening speech how much I value consultation. I firmly believe that there is no substitute for walking and talking with the people on the ground dealing with and living with the issues in a very real way day in and day out.
#SIF2021
#SIF2021
