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

Professor Amanda Haynes:

There are a number of different approaches that can be taken. The legislation that has been drafted in respect of recording people being stopped and searched does not incorporate an ethnic identifier. If it is enacted, we will have recording of people being stopped and searched for the first time in the State. However, as it stands, we will not have the recording of an ethnic identifier. At this stage in our development, it is incredible that we would miss this opportunity and put through the legislation and actively choose to omit an ethnic identifier. That is not just for the Traveller community but for all of ethnic minorities in this country.

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