Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Niall ? Donnabh?in:

From our point of view, the schemes we are designing with the families involved are culturally appropriate and Traveller-specific. Whatever phrase you want to call them, they are based on the needs of the families. As for constantly putting a label on them of being Traveller-specific they are based on the families' needs and what their requirements are. There is a very different type of design, for example, for what the council is putting on the original Spring Lane site compared with what it is putting on the Ellis's Yard site, because certain Traveller families want standard housing. In our case, we will allocate standard housing on that basis and a choice of aesthetic systems is available for that. It is incorrect to label it as being Traveller-specific. It is all housing, depending on need and on requirement.

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