Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2020; and the drawdown for Q1 and Q2 of 2020 by local authority in tabular form. [16553/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, housing authorities have statutory responsibility for the assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers and the preparation, adoption and implementation of multi-annual Traveller Accommodation Programmes in their areas. My Department’s role is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist the authorities in providing such accommodation, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding.

In 2020, to facilitate ease of access to such funding, my Department is no longer allocating specific budgets to individual local authorities from the €14.5m in funding available overall. Instead, it is open to all local authorities to apply for and drawdown funds at any time throughout the year and this is actively encouraged by my Department. Details of the drawdowns by individual local authorities to date in 2020 are set out in the table below.