Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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499. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money not drawn down by local authorities in 2010, 2011 and 2012 in respect of traveller accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24208/13]

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 ho using 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 and amounts recouped in respect of Traveller-specific accommodation over the period 20 1 0-2012 are set out in the following table: