Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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That is absolutely crazy. Local authority CEOs should meet people like Mr. Coskeran. We, as public representatives, regularly deal with estates where developers have walked away and left things up in a heap - ghost estates, call them what you like. Here is a development that has been finished to a high standard. I know the estate and I know Hillview beside it. To my mind there is a very simple solution. The engineer at the time said the best way to go about dealing with the wastewater was to connect the water treatment plant to Hillview just beside Mr. Coskeran's estate. The council turned that down at the time because it claimed the system was not capable of taking the other five houses. Subsequently, it agreed that it is. It does not seem like rocket science that for the sake of maybe ten 6 in. pipes to connect Rocksprings to Hillview and all this could be solved. It is another case of bureaucracy and red tape getting in the way of common sense.