Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Traveller accommodation budget in 2008 was approximately €40 million, and last year it was approximately €8.7 million. It has increased a small bit this year, but not by a great deal. What level of increase does the Minister of State hope for? It is clear we need to get back to 2008 levels at a minimum. If all social housing budgets were cut by 90%, why has the restoration for general housing need been far greater than the restoration of funding for Traveller accommodation? The performance against the drawdown on the part of local authorities was actually much greater when there was far greater money around in 2008.