Ms Denise Doyle:

The definition of "mobile home" is open to interpretation at the moment. As I said, a lot of our families would be bigger in size and would require a larger unit. We discussed this with the Department of housing and had it out on a site visit to St. Dominic's Park last year and also to Labre Park. The Department has been quite open to considering a review but that unfortunately does not appear to have taken place yet. I hope that when it assesses this year's pilot caravan loan scheme, it will be addressed under that review. It has advised us to look more at modular homes for our new builds and that is something on which we are liaising with our architects' team, to come up with a culturally appropriate design using the modular housing units.

With regard to the apprenticeships, Dublin City Council previously had an apprenticeship programme directed at members of the Traveller community, to get them employed within local authorities as tradespeople. We hope to re-establish that but also to extend it in a way to include possibly a mentoring programme with members of the Traveller community where they are part of the delivery of the education programme. It would encourage attendance and keep the Traveller community involved in the programme. That is what I hope to discuss further with our HR department. I will let Mr. Smithers come in on other queries.