Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 December 2020
251. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of accommodation units provided under the Traveller accommodation scheme by Longford County Council in each of the years 2017 to 2019; and the targets set for the local authority for each of these years. [42593/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998 requires each local authority to develop, adopt and implement 5-year rolling accommodation programmes to accelerate the provision of accommodation for Travellers. The fourth Traveller Accommodation Programme (TAP) adopted early in 2014 ran from January 2014 to December 2018. To align the TAP to run concurrently with the term of office of elected Councils, the 5th round of Traveller Accommodation Programmes were deferred by Ministerial direction, beginning instead in July 2019, covering the 5-year period from 1st July 2019 until 30th June 2024.
Annual Progress Reports measure local authority provision of Traveller accommodation in a given year against the target for that year as contained in their TAP. TAP targets and outputs include figures for delivery of accommodation for Travellers across the range of accommodation options available to Travellers and is not limited to Traveller-specific accommodation.
The figures for Longford County Council for 2017 and 2018 are set out in tabular form below.
The period from January 2019 to July 2019 was outside a TAP period and as a result there were no targets set for this period. However local authorities have been requested to report output for this period now along side targets and output for the first year of the 5th Programme which ended in June 2020. These reports are currently being complied.
The next reporting period will cover the second year of the 5th TAP from July 2020 to June 2021.
Longford County Council
Target-Output 2017 & 2018
|
Local Authority |
Target |
Output |
|
2017 - Longford County Council |
22 |
11 |
|
2018 - Longford County Council |
22 |
20 |
