Date: Monday 25th November, 2:30-4:30pm (there is a Housing Strategic Policy Committee Meeting at 4pm).
Location: Outside Fingal County Council Offices, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15.
Travellers and organisations from all over the country will be coming together in solidarity to highlight the injustices that Travellers face in Ireland. Local authorities and the Irish government have failed to deliver accommodation for many Traveller families over the past 15 years, and now is the time to protest around the lack of investment in Traveller-specific accommodation and the impact this is having on Traveller families and especially on Traveller children.
On this protest we will highlight the plight of the Mc Donnell families on Dunsink Lane. These are 14 families living in an unofficial halting site in Dunsink Lane for the past 15years. Their site lack basic services such as hot water, electricity and flushing toilets, bin collection, no postal service or suitable play area for children and they have been affected by flooding several times. The Local Authority in Fingal Co Council has failed to provide accommodation for this family despite commitments made for the past 15 years.
Local organisations are being asked to please mobilise as many staff and people from the community for this day of protest. It is vital that we show a strong, collective movement that stands in solidarity with the many Traveller families being denied their basic legal right to culturally appropriate accommodation.