Mr. Brian Dillon:

The Deputy asked two questions of us. The first is very interesting as it related to having Traveller housing development as part of broader housing development and how that happens. We have done that already. The first homes we built in Tullamore, County Offaly, were part of a bigger development of 14 units of social housing and a four-unit Traveller development. That worked for a number of different reasons. We learn all the time, and we are learning every day, that when people talk about Traveller-specific accommodation, there is no such thing as a complete or universal definition. It really is about different people's needs and listening to those needs.

A cross-community effort is being put in there on an ongoing basis. We made the point in our paper that we saw the building of homes as probably the biggest task. However, building capacity, understanding and mutual respect is a far harder thing to build and we are spending a lot more time doing it. We have developments upcoming with Clúid Housing, which has a major development in Tullamore, and with Sligo County Council and its major development at the edge of Sligo town. We are using those as test beds where we already know the families we are working with in advance of that development. Everything is about planning it from the beginning. It is also about planning with the residents because it is not about building some magic Traveller home and then finding somebody to put into it. We work with families from day one and with the settled community and the surrounding community.

On Dublin City Council, I am not sure if the Deputy meant the local Traveller accommodation consultative committee, LTACC?