Mr. Martin Reilly:

What I want the Chairman and the committee to understand is that we can never switch off. The committee members can go home. They can turn their phones off, unplug them from the walls or whatever. We are constantly, even when asleep, worrying about the door knocking where somebody else is in crisis, has attempted suicide or whatever the case may be. We are at it 24-7, 350-odd days of the year. We can never switch off. The members can walk away from here tonight, go home, sit down and have their food. We are always on the go. Ms Minnie Connors, who is a Traveller, myself and everyone else are worried about that knock on the door or that mobile phone ringing at any hour of the day or night.

The committee needs to do something because, as Traveller representatives, we are fed up giving the members everything and them not acting on it. Enough is enough. As Ms Connors stated, what does it take? How many more lives have to be taken, either by their own hand or anyone else's hand, before the committee states that they need to act on their procedure and policy? That is what the members are elected for. As we discussed outside, every decision the members make in here has an effect on everybody on that street, and they need to make the right ones. They should stop taking from people and instead give back to them because, after all, we have given the members enough. That is what I would like to say on it.