Dr. Robbie McVeigh:

I would need to examine what was being advocated. The implication of ethnicity is a broader intervention around race equality. That is the core first step. What is done via other interventions is a different issue. In terms of ethnicity, there would be no justification for having a race strategy that did not include Travellers. That is why the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, CERD, thing is so silly. If one is going to make an intervention under CERD, Travellers should be integrated under it.