Ms Rosemary Hennigan:

Focus Ireland has been campaigning for a referendum on the right to housing. That would give us an opportunity to review the legislative framework we have at the moment and the ways in which it could do a much better job of acknowledging, protecting and nurturing Traveller culture. There are opportunities to do that because at the moment the framework can be quite blind and a bit of a one-size-fits-all approach. When we look at the social housing lists, there is an opportunity, as I said, to have a larger unit size but also, within that, to have an element of choice about what those units might be. As the Chair said, it does not all have to be housing by any manner or means. The Housing Agency has addressed that somewhat. The right to housing gives us an opportunity to have a discussion on what that might look like. Housing does not have to mean a house in the traditional sense. It can definitely be an opportunity to have that conversation.