Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community
Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion
Ms Cathriona Tumelty:
To add to what Ms McDonagh and Ms Comerford have said, we are aware there has been this sense of document fatigue. We have had a lot of research strategies and action plans, and now is the time to see action. As Ms Comerford stated earlier, our EDI document is just that: on its own, it is a document without the action. She talked about what we are trying to do under it. I also want to mention that, at a national level, at the launch of the Travellers in the Mainstream Employment Market report, it was mentioned that Travellers will be named in the next Pathways to Work document and strategy, and also that the next iteration of national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy will include a Traveller and Roma training and enterprise plan. Hopefully, we are starting to see that action coming through on a national level and, from our side, we will certainly be working on it.
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