Clare County Council’s spend on Traveller accommodation this year is set to be more than triple the spend of two years ago.
The total projected spend for 2018 is expected to be just shy of €750,000, compared to just €243,000 in 2016.
So far this year, Clare County Council has spent €643,000 on Traveller accommodation in this county – that’s projected to rise by a further €100,000 before the year end.
This is well ahead of last year’s spend of over €370,000 and eclipses the figure of €243,000 in 2016.
In terms of individual increases, security and legal costs have seen the biggest rises.
This year, it’s expected that a total of €120,000 will be paid out in security costs for Traveller accommodation – in 2016, that figure was just €1,351.
While Legal costs have a projected expenditure of €160,000 for 2018 versus just over €62,000 two years ago.
Waste collection, meanwhile, accounts for the biggest chunk of spending on Traveller accommodation for this year at €195,000.
It means that in total, from 2016 to this year, in the region of €1.4 million will have been spent on Traveller accommodation.
