Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will just bang out a couple of questions quickly here. Our guests may bear with me and whichever of them wishes should feel free to answer them. We have had numerous witnesses before us and submissions to us. The first question I ask of all of them is whether they think a national body should be established solely to look after Traveller accommodation. We have also had numerous submissions where people spoke about looking at an ethnic identifier to determine housing needs down the line. I want an opinion on that. Do our guests think that should be in the hands of the local authorities themselves or should it be national? Is it something for which we could be legislating?

Another point, touched on by Ms Gibney, is that while we have been discussing local authorities, the private sector is a big issue. We have seen that Travellers are 22 times more likely to be discriminated against when it comes to the private sector itself. What must we do to address that?

The FLAC members spoke about the numerous mechanisms Travellers face when it comes to evictions from the unofficial sites. Will they elaborate on those other mechanisms, what they would like to see as a fairer solution and what we must do to address that?