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

I should have mentioned access to mental health services for everybody. There has been a significant crisis over the last ten years in terms of anybody, whether working class or whatever, getting access to mental health services. This is compounded for the Traveller community. This issue is not happening in isolation but it is societal one and relates to cutbacks in the health services.

Being a minority and being completely marginalised compounds the issue and these problems can then be internalised. In some ways, this can be counter-intuitive, where people do not go to get help and completely internalise the issue.