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Cllr Francis Timmons – Independent Voice

Oldcastle Park

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

MOTION NO. 8

MOTION: Councillor F. Timmons

“That SDCC Urgently seek emergency funding and this be made available to help families in Oldcastle Park to improve and upgrade the Accommodation for the Traveller’s living there.’’

REPORT:

Oldcastle Traveller Halting Site was a large temporary Halting site which at one time catered for in excess of 40 families but currently has 17 bays in use and it is proposed to open 3 more bays to relieve overcrowding in some of the bays. This work is being funded from the Council’s own internal resources

The re-development of this site is included in the Traveller Accomodation Programme 2014 – 2018 and it has been agreed that we will carry out a needs assessment in conjuction with the families to determine their requirements in order that a draft plan can be prepared and costed.

At a recent meeting of the Local Traveller Accommodation Consultative Commitee held on the 22nd April it was proposed that the Council write to the Department of the Environment Community and Local Government seeking urgent emergency funding for the provision of caravan loans for 8 of the 17 families currently on site as their current accomodation is considered to be substandard.

Correspondence issued to the Department in this regard on the 28th April 2015 and we are awaiting a response.

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