Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I was in local politics before I came to the Oireachtas. I sat on the local Traveller accommodation consultative committee, LTACC, in Kildare County Council. The witnesses are talking about Traveller women even being present in the room. Is there any way that local government could help support women? I just do not mean getting elected but by having them on different committees. Traveller women are only on the LTACC. It was hard; they had no support. There were no travel expenses or anything for them to go to those meetings. Could Ms Joyce comment on that as well?
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