Galway Bay fm newsroom - Galway County Council estimates that it will need to provide 111 homes of different types to the Traveller community in the next five years.
This is the target set in the Traveller Accomodation Plan that was adopted by councillors at their monthly meeting in County Hall this week.
Acting Director of Services, Jean Brann, told the meeting that the target for homes for Travellers set in the 2014-2018 plan had been exceeded.
The objective was to provide 255 homes, and 262 homes were provided.
The Traveller Accomodation Programme outlines methods whereby studies and research had been carried out on Traveller accommodation preference in the county.
Out of 20 families surveyed, 16 outlined a preference for stand-alone accommodation in order to be away from possible tensions in places where the Travelling community was grouped together.
Four had a preference for different types of group housing.
County Galway with 2,647 members of the Travelling community and has the highest number of Travellers in any county in Ireland.
