John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I echo Senator Noonan's earlier comments about the profound nature of IHREC's initial statement and how it highlights the breadth of work that is ahead of us in terms of the issues that affect the Traveller community and the work that we must do to address those.

The measurement of progress has been mentioned a lot. The commission laments the continued lack of legal recognition of Travellers and Roma as national minorities but in 2017, the State officially recognised Traveller ethnicity as distinctive. What would be the fundamental nuts and bolts of proceeding to legally recognise both Travellers and Roma as national minorities?