Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality

Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Maria Joyce:

Yet, we are finding that there are Traveller women in our prison system on short sentences. It makes no sense whatsoever for women to go to prison on short sentences. Family life is entirely disrupted because they are primary carers.