Mal O'Hara (Green Party)
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I thank the Minister of State for coming to talk to us. The ethnic identifier was introduced in March 2022. What is the Minister of State's sense and that of the Department of how robust that is? Without clear, concise data, we cannot get a true picture of need. There has been significant progress on introducing that, but how robustly is the ethnic identifier being implemented and what sort of data is it providing for us?

There will be another census in the coming years. Has the Department advocated that the census should monitor the ethnic identifier and are there any work programmes or actions that would help us ensure we will get correct data on Traveller communities and their needs from the census?