Mr. Patrick Reilly:

I was going to come in and speak about what Ms Fay covered in the second half of her piece, with regard to the importance of the primary healthcare projects. I know Senator Dolan spoke about the HSE and how it has saved lives during Covid-19 but I guarantee her the primary healthcare workers have saved many a Traveller life and unfortunately, as Ms Fay highlighted, they are working under that umbrella of uncertainty. Traveller infrastructure needs to be taken seriously. It is far too long saying "we need to be doing this and that". We have great examples of the positive and great work we are doing. That needs to be at the forefront. We are here. We are ready to do this and we did not just come here today and whinge and moan although God knows, we have much to whinge and moan about. We gave solutions here today. We have given tangible solutions. We spoke about the training on ethnicity. We spoke about things that can be done with regard to education. Ms McDonnell and I are in Maynooth doing our first year of the youth and community degree and it was some year. We came in, sat down, took off our coat and put it back on because we were out due to Covid-19. We are good models to other Travellers. We want to be in those spaces. We want Traveller doctors and solicitors but, by God, there are barriers there and they are not because Travellers create them but because we are Travellers.