Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding drawn down by each local authority for Traveller accommodation in each of the past five years per local authority, in tabular form. [13938/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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 drawdown funds at any time throughout the year and this is actively encouraged by my Department. Full spend of the Traveller accommodation budget has been achieved for the past 3 years - 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The drawdown for Traveller specific accommodation for each local authority in each of the years 2018-2022 is set out in the following table.