Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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We are moving away from our more usual practice of having witnesses in. There is a backlog of petitions, and we have 13 to consider today.

Our first petition is No. 21 of 2021 entitled "Taking in Charge" by Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to the request that the local authority take in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross, County Tipperary. This petition has been before the joint committee on several occasions. The updated information we have is that on 4 September, Tipperary County Council wrote to the committee to update it on progress made. In the reply, Tipperary County Council confirms it has made good progress following engagement with the relevant national stakeholders, the commitment by the Department to provide funding under the national developer provided water services infrastructure resolution programme for this estate and the understanding provided by Uisce Éireann to the council around the non-application in this instance of the national memorandum of understanding, MOU, for the taking in charge of housing developments. The infrastructure in the estate has proceeded to final inspection stage of the statutory taking in charge process. The roads section of Tipperary County Council is to advertise the final stage of the process which will give members of the public and other interested parties the opportunity to make a submission on the proposed taking in charge. Following the completion of this stage, the matter will be considered at a future plenary meeting of the council, likely to be in 2023 or early 2024.

The committee recommends that the correspondence from Tipperary County Council be sent to the petitioner for his information. The committee will write to Tipperary County Council and request that the committee be informed when the public consultation process is complete. Do members have any views on this?