Mr. Chris McDonagh:

The mediation service is involved with the PSNI in the North. Five years ago, there was a dispute in Enniskillen. Sadly, one man lost his life. The PSNI called the Donegal Traveller Project and asked if there was any support because it had no relationship with the Traveller communities there. The Donegal Traveller Project told them to give the Traveller Mediation Service a call Within two days, my colleague Frank Kavanagh and I went up and met with the PSNI and then we met with the two families on both sides of the Border. Since then, we have worked there a great deal, especially with the sergeant in Omagh. We have had talks with them. At the moment, they are looking at putting funding together in order that we can maybe set up one or two mediators for the North who would be working for the Traveller Mediation Service. We had a meeting a couple of weeks ago in Cavan where we had members of An Garda Síochána and the PSNI attending because we have a bit of a cross-Border dispute with families. It is about how to support each other there. The PSNI is currently looking at funding to get perhaps one or two mediators for the North of Ireland.