Provisional meeting planned to discuss city Traveller accommodation

Galway Bay fm newsroom – A special city council meeting to discuss the Traveller Accommodation Programme has been provisionally scheduled for next Monday. (17/7) At a meeting of the local authority this week councillors were told that consultation has been ongoing with the Traveller-led accommodation association, CENA. The workshops with Travellers have been trying to establish what culturally appropriate modern day accommodation for Travellers would look like. CENA will present the design to a joint meeting of the Local Traveller Accommodation Committee and the Special Policy Committee of the city council on Friday. (14/7) Depending on the outcome of that meeting, Mayor of Galway, Pearce Flannery has scheduled a provisional meeting of the council at 2p.m next Monday to discuss the review of the Traveller Accommodation Programme.