Traveller family challenges Cork City Council's adoption of accommodation plan

The famil say their unauthorised halting site is “thick with rats” and they remain in unsanitary conditions with limited washing facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The family wants the decision adopting the five-year plan struck down over the alleged failure to provide the family with long term Traveller-appropriate accommodation. File image

More than 20 members of a Traveller family have launched a legal challenge in the High Court against the five-year Traveller Accommodation Programme adopted by Cork City Council.

The adults and children who have been living on an unauthorised halting site in the city for the last 15 years without electricity or permanent toilet facilities want the decision adopting the five-year plan struck down over the alleged failure to provide the family with long term Traveller-appropriate accommodation.