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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: We will take all the findings from the evaluation process into consideration to ensure, to the Deputy's point, that the scheme is fit for purpose. The figure of €40,000 was based on when the scheme was being put in place and being piloted. It has been successful in many ways but, to take the Deputy's point, cost considerations need to be factored into the new scheme and setting the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: It is important to have true and accurate information on where Travellers live and their accommodation preferences. The Department noted the findings of the 2022 annual estimates of accommodation of Traveller families, which indicted there were 12,183 Traveller households in the State, of which 79% were in standard accommodation and 21% were in Traveller-specific accommodation. I hope to...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Regarding the Senator’s question on the implementation of the Oireachtas joint committee recommendations but also regarding the expert group’s implementation, in March of this year, we supplied the most up-to-date positions on progress on the implementation report. We also published the programme board update in May of this year. We have presented two sets of updates on the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Under the Traveller accommodation programme, it is important we have an on-the-ground assessment linked with the number of Traveller-specific households who require Traveller-specific accommodation, be it in group housing schemes or halting site bays, but also there is a preference for many Traveller families to be housed within social housing. We are providing support through Housing for...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Deputy for his line of questions. I will take his question on the recommendations for the national Traveller accommodation authority. I recognise that the programme board is actively considering the recommendation for the national Traveller accommodation authority. It is one of the key recommendations in the expert review group. I understand from my officials that there is work...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: In terms of Traveller-specific accommodation, our Department is responsible for the delivery of halting site bays or group housing schemes. It is up to the local authority to design and deliver. Certainly, it is being considered as part of a delivery programme. With rising construction inflation, the cost of delivery of group housing schemes for Travellers has increased. Modern methods of...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: It is really important that within local authorities, be it through social workers, the HSE or disability services, we have a consultative process to evaluate the needs of families who may be impacted by disabilities or special needs. The provision of suitable accommodation is really important within a housing-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for your honesty with regard to some of the questions you have raised about Traveller-specific accommodation. As someone who has been within the Department for only the past 11 or 12 weeks, I have been trying to get to grips with what has been achieved. We did have challenges within local authorities in terms of their delivery, but I have seen huge progress over...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I will respond to Deputy Ó Cuív. He has re-emphasised the importance of needs analysis within local authorities to determine the level of demand. We issued guidelines in December 2023 relating to the preparation, adoption and implementation of the local authority TAP. The fifth round of the programme was adopted in 2019. That will run until the end of this year. What is really...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: We must build in both current and future demand into the projections for accommodation programmes in the next five years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to an issue (details supplied); and if he will provide an update on the matter. [29097/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (9 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: 371. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a sports capital grant will issue to a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29106/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 397 and 436 together. My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability scheme, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. The grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, the Mobility...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (9 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: Under the vacant site levy provisions contained in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (the Act), planning authorities were empowered to apply a vacant site levy of 3% of the market valuation of relevant properties which were listed on local authority vacant site registers in 2018, which relevant owners were liable to pay in January 2019. The rate of the levy increased to 7% for sites...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: 598. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29103/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: 789. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a shortage of tyvense medication, which is used to treat conditions such as a ADHD; the measures his Department is taking to ensure an adequate supply of this vital medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29828/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (10 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: The Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) imposes a general duty on every owner and occupier of land to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the land does not become, or continue to be, a derelict site. The Act also imposes a duty on local authorities to take all reasonable steps, including the exercise of appropriate statutory powers, to ensure that any land within their functional area does...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: First, I want to thank all the Senators for raising the issues on Committee Stage of this Bill.There has been criticism of the guillotine on Wednesday but we are offering up to 25 hours to debate the Bill between now and then. It does not undermine the role and responsibility that Seanad Éireann has in the legislative process. The Bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank all the Senators. First, I will address the comments from Senator Boyhan in relation to the chief planning officer. While his suggestions have merits, the directors of services have strategic leadership responsibilities in each local authority and a management role. They are equipped with several different competencies and do not just have a single profession or area of expertise....

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alan Dillon: We will be guided by the advice of the Attorney General and his office on the response. We will be open and transparent on Report Stage about what has been presented to the Government on the Aarhus Convention. Until then, I do not have anything further to add.