Dr. Robbie McVeigh:

On that issue, one can be self-critical, but I would argue that the 1995 task force was the high water mark for any serious government engagement with the Traveller situation, not just in this jurisdiction, but in the world. No government in Europe was addressing the situation of its Traveller or Roma population as directly or committedly as the task force report did. One can be self-critical, but one must also recognise that a great deal of good work has been done. The failure on ethnicity is appalling, but some of the interventions by the Government and all political parties have been good, laudable and more than what has been done elsewhere. It is not a wholly bad story.