Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2024
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion
10:30 am
Dr. David Joyce:
This is pertinent to both the Deputy's and Professor Schweppe's questions and even that of Senator O'Hara. What came through in that report was the positive interactions with gardaí in the sense of community policing with community gardaí and building positive relationships. If that could be embedded in any way on a national scale, it would show that building trust with a community and finding common humanity were helping to break down barriers and those negative preconceptions people have of each other. That comes through all the way through the report.
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