Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)

It is always important to take a intersectional approach to human rights, in particular taking account of concerns around the rights of Travellers with disabilities, LGBT Travellers and others. I have previously worked in LGBT human rights and I had concerns around IHREC's previous strategy statement for the period 2022 to 2024, which under the priority in the previous strategy talked about the eradication of racism, ableism and sexism but not homophobia. I would like to put on record that I think the exclusion of LGBT people from the previous strategy statement was unjustified and unjustifiable. I would like to hear what the witnesses think, or if they have concerns, about the rights of Travellers from other minority groups, be they LGBT or disability, and how we can progress some of those because I have concerns around that intersectionality.