Ms Missie Collins:

We visit families to promote health. Travellers are living in very bad conditions; some have no running water or showers for washing. I visit families in private accommodation. I know a mother of three children who is living in an apartment and is isolated from her extended family. She has a box room and one bedroom for her three children, herself and her husband. She cries every time we visit her because she wants a small garden for the children to play in. She would welcome a site with group housing. Who knows better than me what such families need?

I went through the same experience 24 years ago when I moved to live in an area with only tigíns. I campaigned for the houses in which we live now, to which Ms McCann referred. Everybody has to take into consideration the fact that unless housing for Travellers improves, there will be more suicides and mothers suffering mental health breakdowns. People are crying out for help.