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:
There is a positive and strong link with that. The period of our development plan is from last year out to 2028, but sites have not been specifically identified. The reason for that was that a great deal of consideration went into this. Our general residential zoning policy for Cork city allows for the provision of Traveller accommodation. Our issue is that we did not want to limit where Traveller units or new schemes could be provided, in particular with the onset of the Traveller accommodation programme. The plan is specific, in that it states, where appropriate in the zoning provision for residentially zoned land that Traveller accommodation could be provided for. That will allow us, as part of the TAP, to be more flexible in what exactly is required and where it needs to be. It will not all be grouped housing schemes. As we said, we need to look at other provision with regard to standard housing, building specific culturally appropriate Traveller units into new schemes, in particular as in our case you are dealing with a lot of larger household sizes. It is hard to find bigger units. In some solutions, therefore, we will be incorporating those into the design of new schemes and working through that provision. The TAP will build out the specifics as allowed for in the development for zoning and planning provision.
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