Mr. Bernard Joyce:

We have two national accommodation policy officers, who support national Traveller accommodation consultative committee. Part of that involves working our members and the community in the consultation dialogue. As for the breakdown the Senator is seeking, I would say that is a question for the Department because it has a role and function in ensuring the information is up to date and readily available and indicates what local authorities are providing, given it funds each local authority to provide Traveller accommodation.

We get statistics and figures and we try to break them down and analyse them. We can give the committee the briefings and information that will help it to ask the appropriate questions in its further dealings.