Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The real need is easy enough to project because of family formation. There is a big demand because there is an overhang of 34 that are in informal arrangements and not in HAP, RAS or private rentals, which would be HAP nowadays because very few people get rent allowance from social welfare. In addition, another 44 are coming on stream. There is a big demand. What plans are there to meet this demand? Did the last TAP say it was not going to have anybody in what is being defined as roadside? Was that delivered on?