Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

2:00 am

Mr. Liam Herrick:

We have tried to constructively contribute during the Government's development of equality strategies in a number of areas, including the LGBT community, disability, women and girls, Travellers and so on. It has not always taken the same approach with each of the strategies. We produced the document on the core components of national equality strategies so that things would be, first, standardised, but also that they would talk to each other. Deputy Rice referred to the principle of intersectionality, such as gay Travellers, women refugees and so on. We need to find a way of joining the dots on all of that.