Cork City Council spent almost €130,000 on measures to deal with Covid-19 for the Traveller community in the city.
However, the Traveller Visibility Group has questioned the local authority’s response to Covid-19 and what that money was spent on.
The Echo reports Cork City Council and the HSE had an inter-agency response to the outbreak of Covid-19 and the particular risk it represented to the Traveller community.
The council say they had a number of initiatives including the provision of a ‘significant number’ of chemical toilets, sanitising all sites on two occasions, delivering water tankers, and providing hand sanitisers and personal toiletries.
The council also delivered a number of transportable and fixed mobile units for use as isolation units and 20 houses were made available to reduce overcrowding and to provide further isolation units.
However, the TVG questioned the council’s early approach to Covid-19, claiming that preventative measures it requested were not put in place, and that the support from the council was not enough to cater for the dozens of families on halting sites across the city.
