Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Sinéad Carr:
I do not know whether Deputy Ellis wanted a comment on this. As regards modular homes and the horse project, it is not necessarily that people are close to it. There is a better way of delivering it. Sometimes people forget that many Travellers are in social housing of whatever form and they rent and purchase land for horses, and there is nothing wrong with that. It needs to be recognised as well. What we are talking about are the more marginalised who need particular support and do not have access to that, but providing accommodation for horses alongside group housing schemes does not work in the current environment.
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