Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion

11:05 am

Dr. Jim Mac Laughlin:

Many points have been raised. In the 1990s when I was working on this issue, journalists brought to my attention very forcefully that it is important to recognise that Travellers, just like any group, are not uniformly poor and do not all suffer from despondency. There is social stratification within the Traveller population. There are processes of exploitation of Travellers within the Traveller population and it is very important to recognise this and that we do not take a 19th century view that these are the innocent people in Irish society. This certainly is not the case.

What was the other point?

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