Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Gerard Brophy:
I did refer to that earlier. In some parts of the country, we do have family support workers recruited from the Travelling community who can work with the Travelling community. I referred earlier to the education supports we have as well, where we do want to get in more people from the Travelling community and support them through education to be social care educated or to be social work educated. We have four people who have come through that scheme. We have other people who are members of the Travelling community who work with us as well, but we do not have a number on that. Again, it is not something we have. Going back to what our own organisations do, because again people may not want to self-declare, that is certainly something we can look at into the future in terms of employees.
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