Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sure Pavee Point has legal advice. I am suggesting that it look at the law and suggest in the existing Bill an amendment that could deal with that issue quickly or, better still, a short amendment that fits into the Bill. I believe that is doable. Remember, what is illegal becomes legal tomorrow if we make the law, as long as it is constitutional. It is legal once we make it legal. We just need a targeted approach just for the short term so that things have to happen. I am fed up now, and Mr. Collins is aware that it is anathema to me that we have so much planning and so many strategies but they are not sorting out problems for the people I represent. They are not sorting out the issue of decent accommodation. If that is not getting done, it is more blather and less action.

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