Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Competing is one thing, discrimination another. I would like to see some longer term analysis of that issue, perhaps done by the local authorities in conjunction with the Department with responsibility for equality. My hope as we go forward is that we will not have to rely on HAP for any type of housing. It is an incredibly poor way of spending public money. In the meantime, we need to analyse it.

Mr. Curran mentioned that the Traveller identifier would be a feature of application forms. Other people have said it could be done through registration of ethnicity on the form. How would that apply in terms of priority? Have the legal issues around other ethnicities been considered? For example, where we use ethnicity as a criterion, which we fought hard to have included, does that result in the prioritisation of one ethnicity over another and how do we do that in a way that ensures priority for Traveller accommodation?