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Research conducted through the European Centre for the Study of Hate was cited in the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) report published last week. In the framework of its activities, ECRI conducts country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States of the Council of Europe regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified. The ECRI Report cited two key findings of the Irish Travellers' Access to Justice research, regarding institutional discrimination and racial profiling. In particular, ECRI recommended, "that the Irish authorities: i) take steps towards the introduction of legislation that clearly prohibits racial profiling by police officers; ii) ensure the collection of appropriately disaggregated data about individuals subjected to stop-and-account/stop-and-search by police officers; iii) incorporate the issue of racial profiling and the reasonable suspicion standard into in-service police training; and iv) enhance police oversight by developing strong internal reporting and external police complaints mechanisms in order to ensure that any racial profiling and other discriminatory practices are promptly detected and subject to effective investigations and, where necessary, appropriately sanctioned." The Irish Travellers' Access to Justice report was co-authored by Dr Sindy Joyce, Olive O'Reilly, Margaret O'Brien, David Joyce, Amanda Haynes and Jennifer Schweppe.