Mr. Laurence Bond:

I have heard it suggested that to recognise ethnicity would expose the State to significant additional costs above what is already spent on Traveller policy, which is significant. I can clearly see how recognition of ethnicity may have implications for rethinking how some of the money we currently spend is used, what is prioritised and what is not. However I have tried to think about what significant additional costs there could be and I cannot see what they would be.