A minister has intervened in a bid to break the deadlock over the Spring Lane Traveller halting site.

Two politicians have agreed to spend a night at one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites to experience the appalling conditions.

A large lagoon of water and raw untreated sewage poses a serious health and drowning risk to almost 100 children living alongside it, a damning report has warned.

The taxpayer has had to fork out more than €500,000 to clean up illegal dumping from waste ground next to one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites.