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
Mal O'Hara (Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I want to ask about confidence in the justice system for outcomes when Travellers are victims of crime. I know it is a wider point. As a caveat, in the North we have hate crime legislation and we have Judge Marrinan's review, which I hope we will update. Our outcome rates for hate crime reporting languish in the low teens. There is a lack of confidence in minority communities about reporting them. Do the witnesses think the hate crime legislation is an opportunity to provide some additional confidence for Travellers in policing and accessing justice?
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