Ms Brigid Quirke:

Often we find when we offer training that it is the people who are more interested in facilitating Travellers who turn up. It is not the people who have issues who come to the training because it is voluntary. As with sexual discrimination, it should not be allowed. For us to go around and make the whole country anti-racist is impossible. It would go on forever. The positive duty that has been introduced switched the burden of responsibility from NGOs trying to prove inequality and discrimination to the State trying to prove that it is providing equitable and fair services. Hopefully, that change might encourage-----