David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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It would be better if a complaints system was not needed at all and if we got in at an earlier stage. I am always fearful of a complaints process because there is confrontation and complaints. It would be good not to have the need for it but I recognise it is important. My focus would be to go before that and change the culture, as was said. It also strikes me that Travellers, in my experience, are people who had a nomadic background and like to be free. There is a contradiction in locking a Traveller up, in many ways. We must also remember that people are in prison because they committed a crime and there are victims of crime on the other side. We must never forget that. Often, Travellers themselves are also victims of circumstances, as had been articulated. Unfortunately, I have to go to another event.