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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 12, 2020

QUESTION NO. 21

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

To ask the Chief Executive (a) the allocated grant available to SDCC from the Department for the Traveller Accommodation Programme in 2020 (b) if the amount available will be drawn down in 2020, and to make a statement.

REPLY:

Since January 2020, the Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage (DHLGH) no longer allocates specific budgets to individual local authorities for Traveller accommodation capital programmes. Instead, for ease of funding, local authorities can now apply for and drawdown funding at any time throughout the year.

To date in 2020, this Council has submitted claims for the refurbishment /relet costs for nine units in the total sum of €315,000 and we will continue to utilise funding available from DHLGH as we progress the various projects included in our current Traveller Accommodation Programme.