Ms Joanna Corcoran:

The Deputy is correct in what she has said about the whole-of-Government and whole-of-society approaches. It needs to be a whole change, part of which will start with education that should never stop at any age. One of our recommendations is something that we always say: anti-racism, cultural awareness training and dignity should be embodied into everything. If dignity is embodied into all kinds of training, it will be brought out everywhere. It will not happen overnight but we are thinking about future generations because the struggle we have faced has been going on for years. As Ms Quilligan said earlier, we are where we are because of the continued fight and challenging of attitudes. We must start that now in the development of the education curricula for nurseries and primary schools so that change happens. Cultural awareness training needs to be mandatory in all organisations, public and private, in all sectors. That is a recommendation that would have far-reaching consequences.

The pilot schemes with First Class Insulation, FCI, and Bounce Back Recycling are brilliant. We have done that on the back of the small amount of support that is there now. Imagine the success we could have if we had proper funding and support across Ireland for the Traveller economy. It would be brilliant.