Ms Jacinta Brack:

I might add that with regard to some of the progression on the TAPs, the 2016 to 2023 figures take in the previous TAP and part of the current one, so with regard to the rate of delivery nationally, five times the rate of refurbishment units were planned within the TAPs and the rate of new units planning was corrosively low, with only 93 units planned by councils for that seven-year period. With regard to meeting targets and setting out the delivery of new builds, whether group housing schemes, halting sites or whatever, the original intention within those TAPs was so low in the first instance that it is tallying what was the production rate.

In respect of the planning of those, the rate of completion to final stage of new-unit projects shows that only two of the 28 projects planned nationally in those seven years were at the final planning stage. They are also trapped in the planning pipeline. Eleven councils of the 31 had not planned to supply any new Traveller units in the first instance, including two of the largest city and county councils, those in Limerick and south Dublin. The planning stage over all of the 297 projects, which represent only a small number of units, shows that at least 207 are still at the planning stage and just 12 are at the final account stage. It is a low baseline, therefore, but even when it gets into the pipeline of planning, it gets stuck there as well.