Ms Breda O'Donoghue:

I echo everything that the Deputy said and multiply it by a thousand. I know of Traveller families whose first child turned 16 and, until then, had been part of the parents' application form. It becomes a whole new ball game and application form at that stage. Every document that is needed has to be copied. It is a frightening and traumatic experience for some Travellers who have no literacy in their family. It is a process that is repeated over and over again.

On the question about support work for Traveller women and men, the Traveller Visibility Group has a Traveller men's health development worker and he has a number of men's groups around the city. There are not as many of those as there are Traveller women's groups but there are some and those men are looking for more information and development courses. Men are still very much behind but, as Dr. Favier said, we are seeing them catch up a bit.