Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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On that, it is already an offence under the equality legislation to discriminate against a person for membership of the Travelling community. How is adding another ground going to work if it does not currently work? The figures speak for themselves. The levels of unemployment and disadvantage experienced by members of the Travelling community bring shame on the powers that be, we will say. I do not want to personalise the issue but this already catered for in legislation. More has to happen. It cannot just be that. It is already in place and we are looking at figures we should not be looking at. The high representation of Travellers among the unemployed is way out of kilter.