Sir, - In light of Cllr Olivia Mitchell's comments on certain difficulties at present associated with the Travelling community, I will be proposing as soon as possible to Dublin City Council that immediate contact be made with neighbouring local authorities for the purpose of considering how best to address the question of the role of the Travelling community in the entire Dublin area.
Hopefully public representatives will take the time and effort to engage in such a process so that all of us can better educate and inform ourselves.
In the meantime, I strongly suggest that the temptation to engage in rhetoric which is capable of increasing already deeply-held prejudice against the Travelling community be resisted. - Yours, etc.,
Cllr Tony Taaffe, Dublin Corporation, Finglas, Dublin.