Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Colm Ward:
In respect of the broader Traveller accommodation programme, provision has been made in Adamstown SDZ for four different Traveller accommodation developments of six units each. The first of those is likely to be completed, if not by the end of this year, early next year. Agreement is in place for the locations of the other sites. Beyond that, two specific schemes form a core part of our Traveller accommodation programme. One is at Oldcastle Park in Clondalkin. We engaged in a Traveller-led consultation process there to understand the preferences of the families and we are finalising the design to bring back to the local members. Similarly in Rathfarnham, in Deputy Lahart's constituency, a site in Owendoher Haven in Ballyboden is being redeveloped in respect of which we have also had Traveller engagement to try to come up with the right design for those families. Those developments are the bedrock of our Traveller accommodation programme. The rest envisages casual vacancies in standard social housing and in existing Traveller accommodation and there has been a healthy take-up of both of those options.
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