Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth

2:00 am

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail)
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Yes. I am in that unique role. Anyway, from talking to people, I have found that feuding has been an issue, as has kids not being identified. Strategies are great but implementation is powerful. It is a matter of the implementation of that lived experience, and that lived experience comes from the families themselves. We have already identified - it has been said numerous times - their literacy and numeracy. This is intergenerational. That is the dial we need the strategy on, the dial of the intergenerational, to ensure they can participate equally.