Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tom Gilligan:

We do. It was part of our opening submission. We did the annual count for 2023. There were 472 Traveller households in the county. Some 297 of those were in standard accommodation. We broke that down into 220 in local authority or approved housing body accommodation, 76 in supported tenancies in the private sector and one living in a long-term-leasing arrangement. We broke down the remaining 175 households between 11 in specific accommodation, 25 in emergency, 36 sharing, 48 in private ownership, 31 in private rented accommodation and 24 others. We gave a fairly detailed breakdown of that number.