Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I apologise that I could not attend the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality yesterday. I was attending an excellent round-table event concerning the hope the State would recognise Traveller ethnicity, which was organised by the Minister's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.

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