Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion

Photo of Martin ConwayMartin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Each local authority, particularly those with the low spends, needs to set up a Traveller accommodation unit specifically responsible for driving Traveller accommodation within the housing directorate. I was talking to Deputy Ó Broin earlier on. In Clare, €13,000 was all that was spent out of an allocation of something like €850,000 in 2018. It is clear that the structure is not working.

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