Travellers need more ‘robust, durable’ accommodation options

Travellers living on halting sites are in need sturdier cabin-like homes, not caravans, to protect from increasingly severe storms, a local authority meeting heard last night.

Independent Cork city councillor Paudie Dineen urged city officials to ditch the idea of replacing storm-damaged caravans with more caravans, which he said could also be damaged in the next severe storm, and to consider more robust housing alternatives in the longer-term.

“I think they should be housed in cabins, or in modular homes. They are sturdier and more durable,” he said.