“Compared to non-Travellers, Travellers are much less likely to own a property outright (10 per cent versus 30 per cent) or to own one with a mortgage (6 per cent versus 42 per cent). Together, these two homeowner categories account for over 70 per cent of tenure types among the other population.”[1]

And “in 2011, 30 per cent of Travellers lived in accommodation with three rooms or less, compared to only 6 per cent of non-Travellers” and “56 per cent of Travellers lived in overcrowded accommodation compared to just 8 per cent of non-Travellers”. Most Travellers live in accommodation without access to the internet; “only 24 per cent have internet access compared to 82 per cent of non-Travellers”[1]

[1] D. Watson, O.Kenny & F. McGinnity. 2017 A Social Portrait of Travellers in Ireland, The Economic and Social Research Institute