Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Experience of Persons of Mixed Race in State Institutions: Mixed Race Irish
1:40 pm
Anne Ferris (Wicklow, Labour) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Chairman for his interjection. The Chairman mentioned the media and I do hope the media which cover the committee proceedings in Leinster House are picking up on this debate. The delegates are the voice now for so many people. There may not be that many people in their organisation, but there are other people out there. They are the voice for those people. I urge them to try and bring it further. I know how difficult and upsetting it is, but I urge them to seek the opportunity perhaps to take this to the national airwaves, on television and so forth. It is a little bit like the Philomena Lee story. It was seeing the human angle that changed people's hearts and got through to so many people. However, I do know how difficult it is.
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