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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Dr. Joyce is eager to come in.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Dr.Joyce for that. I have a few questions. The witnesses mentioned stop and search. There is a system in Northern Ireland where people are given a little ticket. This does not stop discriminatory stop-and-search activities. We know from those tickets that it is happening proportionately in very strong nationalist areas and in areas where there are republicans. We know it is...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The PSNI has to publish it, by law.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I should be done for everybody. We should not take an ethnic identifier. If those who are stopped and searched want to come forward then, they can do so. I deal with Travellers all the time. One slight concern I have is that it would be like being stopped and asked if you are from the Gaeltacht. It is like the day I was stopped in London. I was going to visit a certain famous historic...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a different issue. The census is totally voluntary and there is no pressure.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We will move on. One thing that keeps becoming apparent is the huge number of prisoners who, in general, go in for less than a year. That includes a very high number of Travellers. Of course, in most cases, sentences of less than a year are perceived as counterproductive because people do not get any education or training. It is hard to engage in such a short period. There is a view that...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There was a point to my question. I accept what has been said. It is a different subset that I will be focusing on. We have to take actions that reduce the number of short-term offenders who are in prison. It would be of great assistance to Travellers because they form a disproportionate number of those offenders. I am speaking about both men and women because we know that many women are...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we dig into those figures, how many were in prison for theft to feed an addiction?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Should it be a pathway to a rehabilitation home for addiction, which would also resolve the other issue?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Fr. Micheál Mac Gréil and others carried out sociological work. Fr. Mac Gréil carried out a detailed and comparative study. He could have told you about every group in Irish society, including non-Irish, Irish, unionists and everybody else. Therefore, you could see that Travellers came out the worst. We know that societal attitudes are very anti-Traveller. We have been...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I am saying is that you are not going to find an official record of that on the other side.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We in this House are used to getting answers to questions that suit the system. We try to get to the issues but others tell us to hang on for a second, that they have gone through every file in the place and cannot find any evidence.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to ask a question, particularly of people working on the ground who have experience. People come to me with a complaint about a hospital or anything. Some are willing to go the long road but my experience is that many people want a quick fix. Complaints processes can take forever. Making a complaint to the Ombudsman takes much longer than it used to. The processes are much more...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not only speaking about Traveller community complaints. I am speaking about people from various socioeconomic groups making complaints. Most people will make a social welfare appeal and the system is fairly clear cut. They might not be happy with the outcome but they will do it. There are other types of complaints where people feel the process is tortuous. Therefore, the issue of a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How would that set of figures compare with figures for people living in highly disadvantaged areas who are not Travellers? Generally in rural Ireland, there is respect and interaction, or there used to be when gardaí were in the community because people knew the gardaí who lived there. They were part of the community and attended community events. More modern policing is removing...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We know that six parishes in Dublin provide a totally disproportionate number of the prison population in Dublin. They cannot all be Travellers. Class is a broad brush. I am more interested in getting the data broken down by postal address as that might give a slightly different result. I am curious to learn what the difference is.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We know where the clusters of Travellers live.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to find out whether, in the same housing estates, the non-Traveller population experiences half that level, one third of it or whatever, or if there is a slight difference with the rest of the community. I have lived in different communities in my life. I deal with people from all sorts of communities and I see different attitudes not so much driven by so-called social class...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The witnesses were able to give me the data by social class. When that data was being collected, did it indicate where those social classes were?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am thinking that if they had area clusters, we would get a lot more information. We know from the old days when we were using Trutz Haase to designate RAPID areas that-----