speaker: senator colette kelleher up to speak, and you have 12 minutes to outline your case, please.ehind a government bill that is still in its early stages to teach traveller culture and history in schools. today i'm presenting the traveller culture and history and education bill, which is a bill seeking to right some of the wrongs in our education system that particularly affect people from the travelling community. as hannah mcginley. .. when you look at the hard facts and statistics about travellers‘ healths, mental healths, employment, accommodation, education, i mean, when you look at those hard facts, really the situation travellers find themselves in in ireland today is nothing short of a scandal. there's a group of people living in our republic who are being treated very, very badly. it's the last acceptable form of racism. there's a gaping hole in our history around our only recognised ethnic minority. when we know better, when we're better informed, then i think the chances are of that prejudice and of that discrimination and that, kind of, stigmatising and othering of pe