Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The temperature is forecast to fall to -4°C. Many Travellers are living in freezing caravans or mobile homes, some of which are more than 20 years old. The national caravan scheme was recently extended nationally, but a limit of 75 caravans was put on it. In the case of Galway, we need 24 replacement caravans but we were allocated four. As we come up to Christmas, it is a disgrace that people are sleeping in terrible, freezing conditions. I beg the Taoiseach to ensure that each person who needs a replacement caravan is given a loan under the caravan loan scheme to replace it and to do so between now and Christmas. There can be no delay on this. It is inhumane and degrading.

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