Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 September 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Travellers in Prison: Discussion

10:30 am

Ms Clodagh Carroll:

The vision of the service is that we are entrenched in the pre-sentencing piece, when people are incarcerated and in the post-release piece. We would also like to be able to support Traveller mothers and fathers who are in prison at all stages of their contact with the law and incarceration nationally. We cannot even meet the need in the Dóchas Centre alone. Women are engaging with us.