Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the spend to date by local authorities of the Traveller accommodation budget; and the breakdown of this spend on Covid-19 related work, refurbishment of existing work and new Traveller specific accommodation. [21322/21]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The 2021 Traveller Accommodation budget is €15.5m.  To-date, €1.8m has been drawndown by local authorities.  The following table shows the breakdown of this spend:

Of this, €214,221 represents drawdown in relation to new build Group Housing.

In 2020, the Traveller Accommodation Budget of €14.5m was expended as follows:

The Covid-19 spend in 2020 was incurred on improvement works on sites to minimise, limit or prevent the spread of Covid-19. The spend on halting sites and group housing schemes included ongoing and final account payments for new builds and major and minor refurbishment works.