Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour)
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75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of accommodation provided under the Traveller accommodation scheme in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 by each local authority alongside targets in their Traveller accommodation programme for these years in tabular form. [38472/20]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998 requires each local authority to develop, adopt and implement 5-year rolling accommodation programmes to accelerate the provision of accommodation for Travellers. The fourth Traveller Accommodation Programme (TAP) adopted early in 2014 ran from January 2014 to December 2018.To align the TAP to run concurrently with the term of office of elected Councils, the 5th round of Traveller Accommodation Programmes were deferred by Ministerial direction, beginning instead in July 2019, covering the 5-year period from 1st July 2019 until 30th June 2024.

Annual Progress Reports measure local authority provision of Traveller accommodation in a given year against the target for that year as contained in their TAP.TAP targets and outputs include figures for delivery of accommodation for Travellers across the range of accommodation options available to Travellers and is not limited to Traveller-specific accommodation.

Figures for 2018 are set out in tabular form below.

The period from January 2019 to July 2019 was outside a TAP period and as a result there were no targets set for this period. However local authorities have been requested to report output for this period now along side targets and output for the first year of the 5th Programme which ended in June 2020. These reports are currently being complied.

The next reporting period will cover the second year of the 5th TAP from July 2020 to June 2021.

2018 Target-Output