Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community

Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Colette KelleherColette Kelleher (Independent)
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The point that the Senator is making is that we know that but we are also querying the competence of anybody to whom a member of the Traveller community might be referred, where they might be met by a therapist from the health services or outside of them who is capable of treating that person as an equal, and does not hold prejudice or discriminate, in a hidden manner or not. I am encouraged but sceptical of Dr. Ní Bhriain's confidence that our current mental health services are in that state.