Councils should be stripped of Traveller housing provision, committee told State failures underpinned by ‘institutional racism’, Traveller activist claims
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Maria Joyce of the National Travellers Womens’ Forum said the State’s failures in the context of Travellers and accommodation were “underpinned by institutional racism”. Photograph: Alan Betson
The provision of Traveller accommodation should be removed from local authorities and taken on by an independent agency, either new or already existing, an Oireachtas committee heard on Tuesday.
Institutional racism was forcing Traveller children to live in unsafe, overcrowded and squalid conditions, TDs and senators were told.