Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of issues were raised.

If a person is working with a local authority, the only way he or she can be transferred to Uisce Éireann or Irish Water is if he or she goes there. He or she will not become redundant to go there. The person will transfer in and the question of redundancy will not arise. There are no plans for any redundancies of local authority staff. Either they will transfer or they will not.

An unfinished estate, by definition, is in private ownership; in other words, it is unfinished and has not moved to the local authority, and the local authority has no responsibility for taking it over.