Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Now we are getting forward a bit more. The more I listen, the more I am saying to myself this has to be a governmental change at top level. In the meantime, however, and Mr. Coskeran is not alone in this, there are families throughout the country who are obviously in the same situation, and I believe almost 700 estates in the country are in a similar situation. This is a major issue, and we will try to use the polite word because I am very frustrated that this has been going on for years and no one contacted the Department in Dublin nor did anyone flag it. What seems to have happened, unfortunately, is that while it is totally within the remit of the council, nobody wanted to step outside the box, use the common-sense approach and say it needed to be flagged up. There are directly elected councillors in each county and even the thought of taking the power off them to vote on stuff regarding these estates in their own county is shocking. I cannot figure out why Tipperary County Council back in 2019 or 2020 or 2021 had seen this issue and had not flagged it with the Department. Was it flagged with the Department?