Vol. 573 No. 2
183 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 7 October, if he will report on the status of each local council's implementation of their Traveller accommodation plan with respect to targets set; and the deadlines missed in each case. [24723/03]
Local authorities are, as required under the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998, in the process of implementing their five year Traveller accommodation programmes covering the period 2000 to 2004, inclusive. Local authorities have indicated that they hope to address the identified need for Traveller accommodation within the lifetime of the programmes. However, they were not required by the Act to set annual targets or deadlines for the provision of such accommodation.
The details of the permanent accommodation, standard local authority accommodation, group houses and halting site bays, provided by or with the assistance of the relevant housing authorities from the commencement of the programmes to the end of 2002, the last full year for which figures are available, are set out in the following table. These figures are from the annual count of Traveller families undertaken by local authorities and figures provided to my Department. They also include houses provided by Travellers with the assistance of local authorities.
|
Local Authority |
No. of Units Provided2000-2002 |
|
Carlow County Council |
30 |
|
Cavan County Council |
7 |
|
Clare County Council |
23 |
|
Cork County Council |
4 |
|
Cork City Council |
21 |
|
Donegal County Council |
44 |
|
Dublin City Council |
95 |
|
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council |
28 |
|
Fingal County Council |
38 |
|
Galway County Council |
41 |
|
Galway City Council |
33 |
|
Kerry County Council |
24 |
|
Kildare County Council |
26 |
|
Kilkenny County Council |
17 |
|
Laois County Council |
33 |
|
Leitrim County Council |
– |
|
Limerick County Council |
20 |
|
Limerick City Council |
– |
|
Longford County Council |
29 |
|
Louth County Council |
– |
|
Dundalk Town Council |
36 |
|
Drogheda Borough Council |
– |
|
Mayo County Council |
34 |
|
Meath County Council |
16 |
|
Monaghan County Council |
14 |
|
Offaly County Council |
26 |
|
Roscommon County Council |
3 |
|
Sligo County Council and Borough Council |
7 |
|
South Dublin County Council |
33 |
|
North Tipperary County Council |
25 |
|
South Tipperary County Council |
11 |
|
Clonmel Borough Council |
– |
|
Waterford County Council |
7 |
|
Waterford City Council |
44 |
|
Westmeath County Council |
6 |
|
Wexford County Council |
28 |
|
Wexford Borough Council |
1 |
|
Wicklow County Council |
26 |
|
Total |
830 |
