Mr. Paul Benson:

As the Department with responsibility for housing, our main focus is to provide housing accommodation and to drive the provision of Traveller-specific accommodation. Transient sites are obviously an ask as well. We are supportive of all those initiatives. We fund some community facilities within some of the developments that are approved. Those community facilities require people to run them and the kinds of activities to which the Deputy refers. In some cases, local authorities arrange that locally, while in others the Department of Rural and Community Development and other Departments provide funding to run those kinds of programmes. They are very valuable and we are certainly supportive of them but it is not our core function. Even though we often provide the building, we do not do the softer stuff.