Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Seanad Public Consultation Committee

Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion

Photo of John DolanJohn Dolan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Many contributors today rightly made reference to different participation channels but what Ms Connors and Mr. Lonergan were getting at or what was helping me to understand more was how we take an historic occasion like this and make something of it. What is the game changer? Both the settled community and Travellers have a problem here. I am not saying there should not be more processes. Neither community has on its own shifted the lived experience of people. Is it to do with trust? Is it leaving aside how we victimise or say it is their fault and we are the victims or they are victims? Something like this must happen and the core of that is whether we can chance trusting each other with some things?

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