John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Will Mr. O’Sullivan give us some idea of the types of expenditure that €7 million is used for? Where does it go?

My local authority has started to develop group schemes for members of the Traveller community within a broader housing scheme. When it comes to the timeframe, Mr. O'Sullivan said that given the nature of the projects, some of them take longer. I would have thought that the delay in the Department’s work would be pertinent only to the planning process, such as objections under Part 8. In the context of the Department’s work in the design and furnishing the funding, is it Mr. O’Sullivan’s experience that those wider schemes are delayed because they include a particular group scheme for members of the Traveller community?