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. Robert Burns:

Our Traveller accommodation programme runs for a similar timeframe. We are progressing well. There are similar challenges in Traveller accommodation as in standard accommodation, if we can call it that. Procuring contractors, inflation and all of those things impact on delivering Traveller accommodation. Taking account of that, we focused on refurbishment projects this year because we were able to work off our maintenance frameworks and carry out works to upgrade halting sites and bring in welfare units to supplement the existing facilities. Similar to what Mr. Ward said about the engagement, a lot of engagement goes on. A lot of engagement goes on with communities generally, but we engage quite a bit with existing Traveller communities to make sure what we are providing is what they need and it an iterative process. There is a lot of over and back until we get to the point where we can agree. Sometimes that takes a little longer than we would like but we get to a better solution in the end. We are quite happy with the programme. It is under review at the moment. We completed a seven unit development in Stockhole Lane in late 2021 as well. That is new stock that is in place.

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