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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 14, 2020

QUESTION NO. 15

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive to confirm the amount of funding received from Government in respect of the Traveller Accommodation Programme and will he 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 and provision of medical chalet units in the total sum of €368,368 and we will continue to utilise funding available from DHLGH as we progress the various projects included in our current Traveller Accommodation Programme.

In addtion, the Council received provisonal approval from the DHLGH for the purchase of 9 caravans/mobile homes at a cost of €135,000 under the COVID 19 emergency measures.