Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Tony McCormack (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To be honest, to deal with this aspect and to make sure people begin to trust in the systems we have, in Tusla, other organisations and groups like it, we need to bring in more Travellers. We need to sit down with the Traveller organisations and say this is where we are going to have vacancies for jobs and we need Traveller people to do courses.
Last week we were talking about courses Travellers were doing. It was great they got a diploma, but they need to get a job from that and only some of them got work from it. Tusla needs to sit down with the Traveller organisations and talk to them and tell them where it has positions available.