Ms Maria Joyce:

I am, indeed. In response to the Deputy, we are a while off having to worry about white male privilege. We will not need quotas for quite a while for men in politics.

To get back to my point, the ethnic identifier in data is important. My core point is that we cannot have equality for one group of women while other groups and communities of women are lagging behind. For Traveller women, right across all of the areas, there are stark inequalities, whether it be health, accommodation, education or employment. In all the areas the committee is examining, there are considerable deficits as well in terms of what Senator Higgins spoke about earlier and the care aspect. Unless we can measure for all women and measure impact, we will fail those groups of women in the context of that. I wanted to make that point on the data and the importance of it in measuring and monitoring for all women, including Traveller, Roma and other ethnic minority women.