Written answers
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Traveller Accommodation
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been allocated for traveller accommodation on a county basis per annum for the last five years. [1370/13]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller accommodation programmes, designed to meet the accommodation needs of Travellers, rests with individual housing authorities. My Department's role is to ensure that there is an adequate legislative and financial system in place to assist the authorities in providing such accommodation.
My Department provides 100% capital funding to housing authorities for Traveller-specific accommodation. Traveller families are also accommodated in local authority social housing dwellings, which are funded through the main local authority social housing programme. The capital allocations in respect of Traveller-specific accommodation over the period 2008-2012 are set out in the following table.
County Council | Allocation 2008 | Allocation 2009 | Allocation 2010 | Allocation 2011 | Allocation 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 300,000 | 400,000 | 420,000 | 50,000 | 0 |
| Cavan | 150,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 10,000 | 0 |
| Clare | 2,000,000 | 2,350,000 | 1,900,000 | 500,000 | 300,000 |
| Cork | 2,100,000 | 650,000 | 930,000 | 425,000 | 300,000 |
| Donegal | 350,000 | 100,000 | 70,000 | 25,000 | 300,000 |
| South Dublin | 8,000,000 | 5,224,500 | 3,610,000 | 600,000 | 250,000 |
| Fingal | 4,000,000 | 4,200,000 | 5,000,000 | 700,000 | 150,000 |
| Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown | 2,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 750,000 | 750,000 | 313,150 |
| Galway | 1,200,000 | 805,500 | 600,000 | 100,000 | 500,000 |
| Kerry | 250,000 | 1,080,000 | 100,000 | 400,000 | 23,249 |
| Kildare | 450,000 | 500,000 | 1,100,000 | 200,000 | 30,000 |
| Kilkenny | 250,000 | 500,000 | 1,200,000 | 450,000 | 60,000 |
| Laois | 0.00 | 50,000 | 220,000 | 200,000 | 530,000 |
| Leitrim | 200,000 | 200,000 | 180,000 | 80,000 | 0 |
| Limerick | 700,000 | 650,000 | 100,000 | 200,000 | 134,400 |
| Longford | 250,000 | 800,000 | 750,000 | 0 | |
| Louth | 100,000 | 750,000 | 515,000 | 235,000 | 150,000 |
| Mayo | 100,000 | 750,000 | 500,000 | 30,000 | 136,850 |
| Meath | 600,000 | 3,000,000 | 2,800,000 | 1,500,000 | 78,133 |
| Monaghan | 500,000 | 400,000 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| North Tipperary | 700,000 | 425,000 | 1,550,000 | 500,000 | 139,508 |
| Offaly | 350,000 | 95,000 | 110,000 | 400,000 | 0 |
| Roscommon | 400,000 | 500,000 | 900,000 | 495,000 | 373,587 |
| Sligo | 350,000 | 900,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | 18,090 |
| South Tipperary | 950,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | 250,000 | 27,641 |
| Waterford | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Westmeath | 600,000 | 150,000 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 46,452 |
| Wexford | 700,000 | 200,000 | 300,000 | 100,000 | 285,000 |
| Wicklow | 200,000 | 600,000 | 300,000 | 600,000 | 550,000 |
| City Council | |||||
| Cork | 200,000 | 100,000 | 40,000 | 62,000 | |
| Dublin | 5,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 1,450,000 | 1,350,000 | 50,000 |
| Galway | 1,500,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 550,000 | 360,000 |
| Limerick | 5,000,000 | 400,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,150,000 | 250,000 |
| Waterford | 550,000 | 700,000 | 1,500,000 | 500,000 | 252,240 |
| TOTAL | 40,000,000 | 32,000,000 | 30,000,000 | 13,000,000 | 5,670,300 |
In addition, a portion of the overall capital allocation was held in reserve by the Department over the period 2009-2012 for the purposes of recouping to local authorities the purchase cost of houses which were required to meet the accommodation needs of Traveller families in specific instances. The amounts involved are as follows: €3,000,000 in 2009; €5,000,000 in 2010; €2,000,000 in 2011; and €329,700 in 2012.
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