John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)

I have a number of questions. I welcome the witnesses. As a Wicklow-based TD, I want to commend Uisce Éireann on the work it carried out in Arklow. It brought that huge project to completion six months ahead of schedule. It has dragged on for the past 20 years, if not longer, and held the town to ransom. We are now finally in a position to unlock the huge potential that Arklow has to offer.

A number of members referred to developer provided infrastructure and there was an announcement from the Minister this week that will allow that process to be used again. The officials put a number of statistics on record in terms of legacy estates. I think they gave the figure of 457 estates in a recent parliamentary question response. They mentioned that as part of the process of going out on-site and investigating these estates, a number of other locations have been identified. Will someone put a number on that? How does a situation like this arise?