Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community
Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)
Colette Kelleher (Independent)
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Are the 17 groups adequately resourced? There has been considerable praise for the primary healthcare projects for Travellers throughout the country. do they have sufficient resources to do the job they are being asked to do? Would the office be open to accepting the committee's interim report which we will produce in a matter of weeks in terms of resource allocation in 2020? There is urgency attached to the issue. While we wait for the coroners' data and so on, people are in trouble and lives are being lost. Does the office accept and agree with the Minister of State's view that there is a crisis when it comes to Travellers' mental health?