David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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It is nice to meet Mr. Joyce again. I welcome him and thank him for his presentation and the work he is doing. The Irish Traveller Movement, ITM, had a review of the national Traveller accommodation programme published in July 2020 and I am not sure whether any progress has been made. I notice under the Act that each local authority has to prepare, adopt and implement a five-year rolling accommodation programme to meet the existing and projected accommodation needs of Travellers in their areas. Will Mr. Joyce give the committee his take on what is happening with respect to that? Are all local authorities producing, adopting and implementing a five-year rolling strategy? Chair, it is something the committee should maybe follow up with all of the local authorities and ask them to forward a copy of this particular strategy to the committee and how it is actually being implemented in each of the local authorities. I think 30 local authorities are involved.