Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Yes. The Traveller accommodation authority would not have a role in respect of those local authority schemes. Rather, it would have a role in all Traveller-specific sites because those are the ones that are not being delivered. Local authority houses are being built – AHBs build many of them – but everyone on the housing list gets in there. That is how it happens in my constituency. Many Travellers, who represent a large proportion of the list, get housed that way. They grew up in houses and so on, so that is fine and it is their choice. I am not speaking about the authority being involved in that regard, though, as it would be complex. Rather, I am speaking about the area where we are not delivering, that being, Traveller-specific sites. That is where the planning difficulties arise.