Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Traveller Accommodation Expert Review: Discussion.

Professor Michelle Norris:

There is a table on page 41 which shows the breakdown of the spend on refurbishment versus new supply. It indicates that 54% of the spend on Traveller accommodation in the past ten years was on refurbishment. There is a lot of spending on items such as caravan loans. The spend on the supply of halting sites was 14.7% and 18.4% on the supply of group housing schemes. As I indicated, on some occasions the group housing schemes are to replace existing halting sites. Does that make sense?