Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tony Smithers:

I thank Deputy Collins. I will come in on some of the questions and my colleagues will also respond to one or two. We will change over. I hope that is fair enough.

In regard to the development plan and zoning lands, in our development plan we have zoned lands for accommodating social housing. The Traveller accommodation unit in Dublin City Council has written to the senior management in the housing delivery section to ensure that existing Traveller accommodation plans and programmes are incorporated into its housing delivery action plans. As part of our housing delivery programme, the Traveller accommodation unit is looking for Traveller-specific accommodation within those plans.