Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister of State accept that the status quo is not working and that while there have been some successes in this regard, there has been a major failure overall in terms of Traveller accommodation? Does the Minister of State also accept that Traveller accommodation programmes are stalled and are either not progressing or are doing so at a very slow rate over several years? It is very welcome that the capital budgets are now being spent. What is also occurring, however, and I am not taking away from what is happening in this context, is that most of this funding is being spent on renovating existing housing rather than creating additional supply.