COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

To ask the Manager if the existing number of Traveller Accommodation Units, including Group Housing, Official Council Halting Sites and Emergency/Temporary Halting sites in the area of Lynch's Lane, Hayden's Lane, the Grange and the Grand Canal is in accordance with the number set out in the Traveller Accommodation Programme?

REPLY:

All of the existing Traveller Accommodation Units provided in the areas specified by the Councillor have been provided under the various Traveller Accommodation Programmes since 2000, and were approved by resolution of the Council for each Programme.

The exception to this Programme was the provision of a 3 Bay emergency Residential Caravan Park at Lynch’s Lane, which was constructed in 2009.