July 2022 - Pavee Point

Funding welcome for Traveller Higher Education – Action Needed at Secondary Level

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre welcomes today’s announcement of enhanced financial supports for students seeking to access higher education. We welcome the specific supports for Travellers and Roma announced today by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris. We also welcome the commitment to set specific targets for […]

Human Rights Committee calls for implementation of Traveller & Roma inclusion policies

Traveller and Roma organisations welcome the clear focus on Traveller and Roma policy implementation highlighted by the UN Human Rights Committee in its Concluding Observations of Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, published today. Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, along with National Traveller Women’s Forum, Galway Traveller Movement, Donegal Travellers […]

Dignity for Lety – as Pig Farm Demolished

Pavee Point welcomes the news today that an industrial pig farm at the site of a one time Nazi ‘Gypsy Camp’ will begin demolition and a memorial will be built. This has been long campaigned for by Roma activists and Pavee Point has supported these campaigns. Lety in the Czech Republic is the site of […]

IACD Award for Ronnie Fay

Ronnie Fay, RIP, today received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Community Development. Ronnie’s husband Philip Watt accepted the award and said that Ronnie was always interested in linking the local with the international and loved the IACD events. Ronnie very sadly died in January this year. As well as being Co […]

Traveller Pride Week

Well done to all the winners at the Traveller Pride Awards as part of Traveller Pride Week. It was a great event at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin. It was wonderful to see so many in attendance to have so much positivity in the one room.

Meet with Health Minister

Pavee Point was delighted to meet Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, TD to discuss implementing the National Traveller Health Action Plan, due to be published in September. Pavee Point also welcomes commitments to engage with the Department of Health and HSE on further developments to address Traveller health inequalities.

New NTRIS must lead to ‘actual improvements’ for Travellers and Roma – Minister tells UN ICCPR.

Pavee Point welcomes Equality Minister Roderic O Gorman’s commitment to ensuring implementation and measurable outcomes in the new National Traveller & Roma Inclusion Strategy. The Minister was speaking as part of Ireland’s review under the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that took place in Geneva this week. Mr O’Gorman told the Committee […]