Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Having stumbled over my introductory remarks, I will move on to questions. I ask the witnesses to speak more to the Irish Traveller movement and civil legal aid and, in particular, to outline where the roadblocks are and what changes we could make. There is a civil legal aid review under way at the minute. It would be helpful if the witnesses could outline concrete issues that we could talk about in that review that we would like to see changed at the end.

I also have a question for the representatives from AkiDwA around the trafficking issue. It is basically the same issue. Our approach to human trafficking in this country is appalling. We keep tumbling down the ratings in the Trafficking in Persons, TIP, report. We are a tier 2 watch-list country for the second year. We are headed towards an automatic tier 3, which is quite worrying. What roadblocks do people face when they try to engage with that system and seek help? What concrete changes do we need to make? I will start with those two questions and ask another if there is time.