Ms Eileen Corcoran:

I agree with everything that has been said. In County Mayo, a lot of the families are looking for standard housing but we have drawn down a certain amount of funding for Traveller-specific accommodation. If that could be increased across the board it would help, as everyone can agree that it has been harder to get private rented accommodation for Traveller families. We need better quality houses. We have bought a lot of houses in Mayo since 2015, over the last two plans, but they have not been highlighted as being Traveller-specific because not all the money came from that direction. If the committee could do anything to ensure more money for standard housing coming through as Traveller-specific, it would help a lot of families and a lot of the 34 families we were talking about, as that is what they actually want.