Dáil
‹ Order of Business Housing Bill and Traveller accommodation
Summary
Dessie Ellis highlights unclaimed Traveller-accommodation funding and asks about the Housing Bill and homeless strategy; the Taoiseach says the Bill’s heads have not reached Cabinet and it is due later in the year.
In the past five years Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and Cork County Council between them have failed to draw down more than €24 million for Traveller accommodation programmes from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Will the Taoiseach outline when the Housing Bill will be brought before the Dáil? It was promised in 2012 and significant issues associated with it need to be discussed. The new homeless strategy needs to be discussed in the Dáil also.
