Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
10:30 am
Ms Rebecca Keatinge:
I am happy to give some of the general themes of our casework at the moment. I might divide it into two parts - the housing and then the equality work. We are doing a significant volume of equality work, which often relates to Travellers, and focusing predominantly on the Intoxicating Liquor Act and access to pubs and restaurants, licensed premises essentially, where people have booked a communion or wedding and then at the last minute the booking is cancelled or they are not permitted to go to a pub or a nightclub. We are taking a number of such cases.