Increase in Traveller families in Cork will mean substantial rise in housing need over next five years

Artist's impressions of the proposed €18m housing regeneration plan for the Spring Lane Traveller halting site in Cork.

Almost 200 Traveller families in Cork City will have a housing need over the next five years.

This is one of the key findings in the city council's new Traveller Accommodation Programme (Tap) which was adopted by city councillors this week — the first since the publication in 2021 of a damning Ombudsman for Children report into shocking conditions at the Spring Lane halting site.