Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

If I went to the Aborigines in Australia, to the native Americans or to other indigenous communities, I would find many of the same syndromes of exclusion leading to alcohol or other substance abuse and to people despising those communities and so on. One thing was interesting about the work of Fr. Mac Gréil, since he looked at every group in society, including immigrant communities and so on. He had a chapter on Travellers, and the interesting thing was that the Travellers, of all the groups in society, came out at the bottom in terms of acceptability, which is quite a shameful reflection on the Irish people in terms of the fact there is an issue. They have been here always and yet there is this prejudice. It was very interesting.