Eileen Flynn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I can kind of answer that question. The recommendation for the Traveller authority around housing came from the expert group in 2019. It is also a recommendation of this committee. For the past 15 to 16 years I have been part of TAPs with the local Traveller accommodation consultative committees. We know better than anyone, Mr. O'Sullivan, that in the entire country, not one of those TAP programmes has worked.

You could be blue in the face writing in for them. Where is that recommendation? It is about trying to get it implemented. If it is not implemented, nobody will be held to account.

What we are doing as a committee is raising it and saying what Travellers want, pointing out that the answers are there and asking how we can implement them. We are trying our best to hold local authorities to account. One of our reasons for inviting in the Cork Traveller Visibility Group and the National Traveller Women's Forum is that we want to hear the problems, even though we already know them, in order that we can bring back the council and tell its representatives what we heard from the groups four or six weeks ago. That is the best answer I can give regarding the implementation of the authority.

Ms Kelly mentioned the repeal of the trespass legislation. That is also one of the recommendations of the committee and it is something we may lobby and campaign for with Travellers and Traveller organisations.