46 houses to be built for Travellers - Ireland

From Northern Sound

Cavan County Council is providing 46 housing units for Travellers over the next four years.

The details were revealed as part of the local authority’s accommodation plan for 2014 – 2018.

There are currently 161 Traveller families living in county Cavan – according to the most recent figures gathered in November 2012.

As part of the Council’s Housing Traveller Accommodation Act, the authority is required to prepare a new programme for the next four years.

A total of 46 accommodation units in the following categories - local, group, voluntary, private and the RAS or rental accommodation scheme – will be made available from now until 2018.

Of these – seven will become available in Cavan this year, while one unit will be free in Bailieborough and Cootehill. The programme will be adopted on April 30th this year.