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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is even handier.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it actually provided?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Was there a problem with the planning on that one?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How many actual properties have been provided?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think this is a huge breakthrough. It would be much better if the Traveller community was given the wherewithal and provided with its own accommodation where it was in charge.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I think would be very useful for us would be to know what the barriers are to doing even more and to it becoming more involved. Is it the local authorities or it is bureaucratic barriers? Give us three barriers. Do not give us 2 million. We need to get things done fast because people are waiting and they need urgency. We need the most doable with the biggest pay back in terms of...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How much money does Cena need for the training? Its representatives need not tell us now and could revert to us with a figure.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We want to go in and do quick, keyhole operations, so we need a copy of the application Cena sent. Our job then will be to kick ass and get an answer. I agree the ultimate solution is a Traveller authority, but Mr. Collins and I both know that even if there were an agreement in principle to go ahead with that tomorrow, it would be two, three or four years before a chief executive and all...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As well as in respect of landfill.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I buy in to the agency issue, but what I am saying is we know that takes time. I will outline the kind of thing I was thinking about in the meantime. Most planning does not go to a vote at councils. The reason Traveller-specific accommodation does is that it is a local authority building on local authority land. As a short-term fix, given the Bill is going to be through by next spring,...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is the point I am making.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am sure Pavee Point has legal advice. I am suggesting that it look at the law and suggest in the existing Bill an amendment that could deal with that issue quickly or, better still, a short amendment that fits into the Bill. I believe that is doable. Remember, what is illegal becomes legal tomorrow if we make the law, as long as it is constitutional. It is legal once we make it legal....

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Every time I hear mention of a report or review right across the whole Government system, and it is endemic in it nowadays, I shudder. They will tell us that the review will be all done in five months, but that is not the case considering the time it takes for it to be done, published, sent out for public consultation, come back and so on. If a big review is required, that is fine, and it...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In making my point, I am not going to take anybody to task. From my experience, most Ministers get two and a half years and are then shuffled. I got a long time but, because of the two-and-a-half-year timeframes, you never knew when the hatchet was going to fall. If you wasted your time and got sucked into the review gig without doing the immediately obvious, you would be out the door...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When I make changes, I hate pilot programmes.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Make the change.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Could I ask one question on that? I have been dealing with three groups of Travellers in respect of accommodation. One group is doubling up in standard housing and wants standard housing. In many cases, they want the housing in the same estate as the family, but sometimes not. Another group is on a Traveller-specific site but in built accommodation as opposed to trailers, and yet another...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Cena do anything to provide modern halting sites with good conditions, built to its specifications?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sorry for the bad language.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have one final point that may be useful. Some word preferences have come up today such as trailer, camp and so on. When a publication is in English, Irish speakers receive a list of Irish vocabulary for those who are not fluent in the Irish language. It is the same thing. Would it be possible to compile commonly used terms that the community has preferences for us to use, such as always...