Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

They have been accepted in principle but that does not mean we can implement them all. To be fair to everybody, we have to get everyone's views. That is what we have been doing in the last couple of months. Ms Tobin and Ms Gill have met the various interested groups. The Traveller associations have asked for more time to come back with submissions and comments. I want to be fair to everybody. However, they have been accepted in principle. As I detailed earlier, we have been determining how to implement some recommendations, which ones it is best to proceed with and how to approach the task. It comes down to mechanisms, and tweaking them if need be, but we are not trying to avoid or drop any of them. None of them will be dropped. They are being worked on and considered. I can go through each one if the Senator wishes.

We are in talks with the Department of Justice and Equality on the legislation relating to trespass. There are some strong views on that, so I cannot give the Senator a definitive answer.

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