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

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

How would that set of figures compare with figures for people living in highly disadvantaged areas who are not Travellers? Generally in rural Ireland, there is respect and interaction, or there used to be when gardaí were in the community because people knew the gardaí who lived there. They were part of the community and attended community events. More modern policing is removing that connection. I think we could have a kickback on that in time. Allowing that that has not been the pattern in highly disadvantaged areas, do we have any statistical knowledge of whether non-Travellers in the same communities - west Tallaght, Castlepark in Galway or wherever - face or perceive the same reaction to their complaints?

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