Accommodation for Travellers is provided across a range of options including standard local authority housing financed from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government’s capital allocations for social housing, Traveller-specific accommodation which is also funded by means of 100% capital funding from the Department, private housing assisted by the local authority or approved housing bodies, private rented accommodation and by Travellers’ own resources. Travellers can opt for any of these forms of accommodation; including Traveller-specific accommodation (halting site bays and Traveller group housing) and local authority Traveller Accommodation Programmes are intended to reflect these preferences. The third round of Traveller Accommodation Programmes (TAPs) covered the period 1st January 2009 – 31st December 2013.