Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Mr. Benson on that.

A reference was made to anecdotal evidence of the difficulties Travellers faced in getting HAP. This committee has heard that Travellers are 22 times more likely to be discriminated against in the private rental sector. It is my experience that there is considerable resistance to renting to Travellers. Does Mr. Benson accept that they are 22 times more likely to be discriminated against? If so, would he therefore accept that, for many Travellers, HAP is not a solution and they wind up homeless as a result?

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