Katherine Zappone (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge what has been said about that. Perhaps it is an internalisation of those attitudes towards people of mixed race that I acknowledge in myself. I also hear how the witnesses have personally worked to challenge their own internalisation of an identity as people who have been oppressed. As a public representative and as an individual, I recognise them as Irish and acknowledge the suffering that they have described. I hope they get justice.

My question is more practical. How did the witnesses meet and how did they get started? It would be good for us to hear about that; they have asked us to help support them in continuing to grow, but what are the origins of the organisation?