Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I should be done for everybody. We should not take an ethnic identifier. If those who are stopped and searched want to come forward then, they can do so. I deal with Travellers all the time. One slight concern I have is that it would be like being stopped and asked if you are from the Gaeltacht. It is like the day I was stopped in London. I was going to visit a certain famous historic place and I was asked where I was from. When I said I was from Ireland, I was asked if it was the North or the South. I replied that I was from the west. I was asked again if I was from Northern Ireland or southern Ireland and I said I was from Ireland. Some people do not want to give a prescribed identifier. I do not know how prevalent that is, but I have seen that Travellers want to be treated the same as everybody else. I do not see why they must identify all the time. They also fear that if they do identify, it could be used against them.