Ms Emily Logan:

Five or six members of the commission met the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Stanton during the summer. We had also engaged with him as chair of the predecessor committee. He has very publicly expressed his support as a politician. I do not think there is any individual issue but it is difficult to know quite what the impediment is if there are no legal impediments. We have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton and to the Minister for Justice and Equality. I do not on an individual basis get a sense that either of them would oppose the recognition of Traveller ethnicity.