Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community
Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)
David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
In my former role, I visited several Traveller accommodation centres and sites and so on. In one of them, I came across a building that was being used for a homework club for children. It was not a great building. When children come home from school, they quite often cannot do homework because the accommodation is overcrowded or too small or there is too much noise or whatever else. The building in question was used for a homework club where children could go and where there were people to help them with their homework and maybe give them something to eat or play games and so on. It was extremely positive and highly effective. Has that kind of thinking been factored into the policies of the Department? What does Mr. Benson think of it?
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