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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
...homelessness action plans that encompass the needs of all homeless populations, including Travellers. However, an audit of local authority Traveller accommodation programmes between 2014 and 2019 indicated that only a select few local authorities gather data for those in emergency or homeless situations and, alarmingly, 12 of 31 did not record any data, often shifting this duty onto...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
...population. Suicide has touched 82% of Travellers, with 44% experiencing it within their immediate or extended family. Additionally, 36% of Irish people admit to avoiding interaction with Travellers. This indicates a troubling level of discrimination. Shockingly, 97% of Irish people would not accept a Traveller as a member of their family, 80% would not accept a Traveller as a friend...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
...national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy under action 76; and that ethnic equality monitoring be implemented across all routine administrative data collection systems to support the development of health indicators to monitor Traveller and Roma access, participation and outcomes in health. I want to end on some positive news regarding a colleague of ours, Missie Collins. In...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the Oireachtas but in society in general. I do not know if there is anybody here today from Rathkeale. I gave Rathkeale RAPID status due to the high level of deprivation, when I looked at the deprivation indices. There also happened to be a high number of Travellers in Rathkeale. The people of Rathkeale came to me and said they do not want Travellers on the area implementation team,...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
...Chair. I never thought I would be in the same space where members of our own community would be referring to each other as doctors and Senators in the same space at the same time. I think that is indicative of some of the progress that we have made over the last 30 or 40 years. As the Chair and indeed other contributors have rightly pointed out, there remains a lot of challenges and...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
...not have to vote in order to vindicate our rights. Nobody should expect that because we do not have that confidence our rights should be lesser. That is important. I heard what the politicians indicated in respect of registration to vote. I do vote and have voted, and it is important for us to do so. There are others in our community, however, who may not and have not voted, and that...