Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We had three petitions for consideration today. Petition No. 21 of 2021 is entitled Taking in Charge and was submitted by Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to a request to the local authority to take in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross, County Tipperary. This petition has been before the committee a few times. The petitioner presented to the committee on his petition at our public meeting on 12 October 2022. Tipperary County Council presented on the petition at the committee’s public meeting of 27 October 2022. On request of the committee, the council has since submitted a set of documents relating to the planning and taking-in-charge processes as they relate to this petition. On behalf of the committee, the secretariat wrote and thanked the council for supplying information requested. It was also agreed by the committee at its meeting of 27 October that this petition be considered again during spring 2023. The petitioner submitted further questions that were forwarded to Tipperary County Council by the secretariat on 30 November 2022 on his behalf. Mr. Eamon Lonergan of the council responded with the answers on 2 December 2022. Mr. Joe McGrath, chief executive of the council, provided a further update to the committee on 16 January 2023, as was agreed at the meeting of 27 October 2022. This was sent to the petitioner, who responded on 25 January 2023. The committee recommends that the correspondence received from the petitioner be forwarded to Mr. Joe McGrath, chief executive of Tipperary County Council, to reply within 14 days and an update on the further engagement arranged between Tipperary County Council and the Department’s rural water unit be requested from Mr. Joe McGrath for reply within 14 days. Do members have any views?

Just to let members know, there seems to be movement on that case. However, Irish Water now has seemed to muddy the waters again and put another requirement on the petitioner. We await his response. I think, at this stage-----