Eoin Ó Broin
Ceist:
94. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the refurbishment and new unit spends, and number in each case, of Traveller accommodations, per local authority, from 2019-2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45369/24]
Amharc ar fhreagra
The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.
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.
The Traveller-specific accommodation programme consists of the provision of new and refurbished Halting Sites, new and refurbished Group Housing, Acquisitions, Mobiles/Caravans and other programme works such as Fire Safety works.
The expenditure is a multi-annual programme, therefore the outputs in any year are not directly relatable to the individual spend in a particular year and it is not possible to fully disaggregate the expenditure in the format requested.
Expenditure on Traveller-specific accommodation, which is in addition to the full range of social housing supports such as social housing, HAP etc. that are also available to Travellers, and the outputs for each of the years 2019 to 2023 (2024 information not yet available) is set out in the following tables:
