Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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My final question relates to an analysis of the type of accommodation of which Travellers currently avail. Close to 80% of Travellers are in non-Traveller-specific accommodation. I wonder what the generational impact of that will be on the Traveller community. Many Travellers fear that many of the things that are unique to the Traveller community, including that sense of collective living, are being eroded because of the failure to provide Traveller-specific accommodation. With no immediate change in that expected, there is a continuous erosion of some of the ways of life of those in the Traveller community. Are we looking at that and trying to protect some of the things that are important to the community?