Written answers
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Traveller Accommodation
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 15 September 2022, the maximum spend permitted for Traveller accommodation in each of the years since 2020; if there is a ceiling on the funding that each local authority can draw down or any other budgetary restrictions since the allocation process was amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51947/22]
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 provides that the role of my Department is to ensure that there are adequate structures and supports in place to assist housing authorities in providing accommodation for Travellers, including a national framework of policy, legislation and funding.
My Department ceased the practice of allocating specific budgets to individual local authorities and implemented a new allocation process following a review of arrangements for the disbursement of funding provision and related supports for Traveller specific accommodation. Since 2020, it is open to all local authorities to apply for and draw down funds at any time throughout the year and this is actively encouraged by my Department. Funding ceilings are not applied to individual local authorities and funding is managed within the overall annual Exchequer provision.
The capital provision for Traveller specific accommodation since 2020 is set out in the table below.
| Year | Capital Provision |
|---|---|
| 2020 | €14,500,000 |
| 2021 | €15,500,000 |
| 2022 | €18,000,000 |
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