Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Travellers in Prison: Discussion
10:30 am
Eileen Flynn (Independent)
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It is important we look at getting Tusla before the committee about the work it does specifically with Travellers in prison. What Ms Costello spoke about is extremely real. Ms Sweeney rightly said that having a relationship with your children is important. Many Traveller women prefer their child to be with the grandmother, sister or uncle and cut off that relationship because of the fear of Tusla. That is very real. It is maybe something we can look at.