Written answers
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Traveller Accommodation
Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Independent)
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307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority (details supplied) made a declaration under a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50917/23]
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, 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.
The Act provides that 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 (TAPs) in their areas.
Clare County Council confirmed with my Department that it was their intention to draw down its allocation of loans from the Pilot Caravan Loan Scheme on 27 July 2023. The Council subsequently submitted a claim to my Department for recoupment of two caravan loans on the 30 August 2023.
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