Limerick East): The National Health Strategy Shaping a Healthier Future provided that my Department and the Task Force on the Travelling Community would undertake a joint study in 1994 on travellers health with particular emphasis on access to appropriate health services.
That study has now been completed and the task force is at present formulating its recommendations regarding a health policy for travellers taking account, inter alia, of the study. As indicated in the strategy, I will, following the report of the task force, publish a policy on travellers' health which will take account of both the recommendations of the task force and the joint study.