Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community

Organisation name in original language

Category of human rights structure

Parliamentary structure/mechanism

Country

Ireland

Type(s) of body

Not applicable

Legal source(s)

  • Established by a vote of theDáil and the Seanadin May 2023

Human rights capacity support

  • None

Functions

  • Established in September 2020 to undertake a programme of work examining the health, education, employment and accommodation of Travellers and to make policy recommendations related to each area.

Specific mandates

Not applicable

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Ministers regularly appear before the committee, as do officers from all government departments.
  • The committee may invite any person to appear and frequently meets with representatives of civil society and accepts their submissions.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • None

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