Vol. 451 No. 8
145 Miss Quill asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of funding provided by his Department in 1994 in grants, subsidies or by other means to people or voluntary groups working on behalf of the travelling community. [7658/95]
A total of £246,803 was paid by my Department in 1994 to voluntary bodies in respect of the 90 per cent recoupment of expenditure by them on the employment of social workers to work with travellers.
146 Miss Quill asked the Minister for the Environment the figure to date provided by his Department for the provision of accommodation for the travelling community, including those travellers accommodated in standard houses from 1963 to 1994. [7659/95]
The cost of providing local authority houses, including group housing schemes, let to members of the travelling community in the past has been included in the overall expenditure on the local authority housing construction programme. Figures are not available separately in respect of expenditure on houses let to specific categories of housing applicants, including the travelling community. From January 1995, funding for new group housing schemes for members of the travelling community will be separate from that for the local authority construction pro-gramme.
Expenditure on halting site accommodation since 1988 has been funded by a combination of Exchequer grants and capital receipts of local authorities from sale of houses. Details of this expenditure are set out in the following table:—
|
Year |
Expenditure |
|
£'000 |
|
|
1988 |
3,540 |
|
1989 |
1,286 |
|
1990 |
1,089 |
|
1991 |
3,109 |
|
1992 |
3,252 |
|
1993 |
3,380 |
|
1994 |
4,053 |
|
1995 |
(estimate) 4,500 |
