Mr. Brian Kennedy:

I wish to outline some of the issues from the Limerick City and County Council perspective. From a maintenance point of view, we have a revenue budget of €1.4 million per annum. We have a contractor available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He provides a very good service. We have a large number of sites around the city and county. There is always capacity for additionality with regard to funding, but we have a certain resource we can use. In relation to the caravan loan scheme, we were one of the counties chosen as a pilot in 2023. It has been very successful for us. Initially, through the pilot we processed 11 loans; the highest number in the country. It was very successful. The pilot is complete and has been rolled out nationally. We have been awarded another €400,000 for this year, and we will have seven families benefit from that. In addition, we also provided 11 emergency mobile homes during the Traveller accommodation plan for 2019 to 2024.