Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Eileen Corcoran:

There were seven bays on it. At the moment we are looking to provide maybe housing. We have put in a submission for mobile homes because the family was not interested in the actual caravan loan scheme. There is currently a solid structure where there are, as the Deputy spoke about, cooking and washing facilities. There was a demountable dwelling structure for each of the bays. Those are now at the end of life so we need to replace them. The first submission we put in was for further demountable dwellings but they are not funded. We welcomed the news that they would fund modular accommodation. I would look favourably upon modular dwellings. We went back to the families about that. Now we are investigating the possibility of revamping the whole site on a phased basis but putting in the one plan, looking for the one submission for funding and possibly looking at putting houses instead of the modular homes.

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