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New Minister For Children Against Separate Ethnic Status For Travellers printable version
08 May 2014 filed by editor - General
The new Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan says he is against granting separate ethnic status for travelers.
In one of his first interviews since being appointed to the high profile role, Minister Flanagan told Matt Cooper of Today FM that he didn’t believe it was in the traveling community’s interest to have separate status – despite the recent recommendations by an Oireachtas Committee that it be granted.
Speaking on The Last Word on Today FM, he said: "I don’t believe that it will deliver the type of improvement that is needed for the traveling community. I believe that travelers are Irish like the rest of us – some good, some not so good – I don’t believe that in a Republic it is in the best interests of society that we segregate people in to different groups; that we have one the one hand members of the traveling community, on the other hand members of the Polish community. The whole basis of a Republic is that we treat everybody exactly the same, under our law.
"I don't believe it would be to their advantage, and I don’t support it."
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