Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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I can understand that. Again, it sounds very weird. If the council has not taken charge of the estate, why are there property taxes on those houses if the estate is not finished? It is just another issue that I want to flag up. It seems to me that all Mr. Coskeran’s appeals have been utterly and totally ignored. The big problem here is that in this common-sense approach, those two words, “common” and “sense”, do not seem to be anywhere in it. Mr. Coskeran speaks with his heart and soul because he put everything into it and he still seems to be very badly treated on this issue. I will leave the committee with this but if we take nothing else from this committee today, my one suggestion is to bring in the county council and to get answers for Mr. Coskeran because this is what this committee is for. It is about giving citizens a voice. As I said, we are public representatives, it is our job and we are trying to do things right as well. Mr. Coskeran is right. It is either right or it is wrong. There should be no middle ground in this and there should be no hiding.