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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