The Justice Minister is denying there's any racial profiling by gardaí.

Alan Shatter has given written replies to Dáil questions over suggestions the children of traveller families were being routinely added to the PULSE computer system.

It says everyone is subject to the same procedures and policies of the system.

United Left Alliance TD Clare Daly, who highlighted the issue of traveller children being added to PULSE, says that explanation couldn't be true: