Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 September 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality
2:00 am
Ms Carol Baxter:
I thank Deputy Ellis. We recognise that there are complex issues needing to be addressed. We believe that NTRIS II offers a good structure because it is a whole-of-government structure and it enables issues to be raised within it. We have referenced the steering committee. Traveller and Roma organisations are involved in that and that provides an opportunity to raise the issues of concern as well as report on progress.
It is an interesting structure. While we are the co-ordinators, each agency is responsible for its own actions. I cannot comment on local authorities-----