Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
2:00 am
Mr. Liam Herrick:
Yes, and there is definitely some progress there. We fed into the process recommending structural aspects of the national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy, and some of those were taken up. There is a strong emphasis in this particular strategy on the public sector's duty to advance human rights and equality that has not been evident in others. There is a review of progress provision in this strategy, which is not in others. We are seeing some progress. The Council of Europe is going to produce a strategy next year and there is an EU strategy in this area too. We are not doing this alone. The fact that the Council of Europe has identified the treatment of Travellers and Roma as being a priority is very positive as well.
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