Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community

Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Concepta de Brun:

We have a 100% turnout for BreastCheck and cervical screening. Our statistics in the Traveller population are second to none and we are beavering away at the men's screening programme where we have overachieved on our targets this year but we still have more work to do with the Traveller men. That peer support model could easily be replicated for regeneration board areas of deprivation in all urban and rural areas. The peer support model works. Where there are poor health outcomes for other economically disadvantaged groups the learning that the Traveller community has could easily be shared.

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