Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have an observation to make. I thank the witnesses for coming in; the debate has been very insightful. It seems there is institutionalised and municipal discrimination by county councils and the State against Travellers. It is blatant. It is disgusting in some ways when one sees it in its naked form. Are we going forward or are we going backwards? There is no doubt but that we are going backwards when it comes to the Traveller accommodation programme. Sometimes we come in here to what becomes a talking shop and we leave none the wiser. What is the one issue the witnesses would tackle and I refer, in particular, to accommodation? I know that is a simple question but what is the one thing we could do to tackle this institutionalised discrimination against Travellers in the State?