Mr. Brian Geaney:

I wish to answer some of the questions on the history of Spring Lane, and Mr. Ó Donnabháin might come in on some of the issues the Deputy raised about the caravan loan scheme.

The history of Spring Lane is fairly well documented. It is more than 30 years old. Ten families initially moved in but that grew probably fivefold over the past three decades or so. Over those years and in more recent times, there has been much replacement of mobile homes, provision of welfare units and so on, but we fully accept the site needs to be redeveloped. It was part of the previous Traveller accommodation programme which was approved by our own council.