Responsibility for Traveller accommodation must be taken from local authorities

Jacinta Brack of the Irish Traveller Movement says Traveller families accounted for 10% of all families in emergency accommodation nationally last year.

The failure to supply Traveller accommodation is well documented and ingrained in systemic and institutionalised racism.

At delivery and supply level the structural and institutional opposition embedded in the cultural practice of personnel and elected representatives responsible for the spending of Traveller Accommodation budgets, has resulted in massive under-utilisation of allocations available prior to, during and post austerity.