Mr. Colm Lavery:

In the context of bringing forward the legislation for the household charge, a separate exercise was ongoing to identify the list of unfinished housing estates and the four categories they fitted into, in the context of the national survey of unfinished housing estates. That survey, which was compiled by the local authorities and returned to the Department, was used in setting out in a statutory instrument the list of unfinished housing estates that would qualify for an exemption or waiver from the household charge.