John Cummins (Fine Gael)
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There is a case, which I have raised with Uisce Éireann, at Cruachán in Dungarvan. It was an old McInerney Homes estate. McInerney Homes went into receivership. There has been subsequent development on the site and 60 of the units were originally taken in charge. Essentially, two developers are at play there at the moment, there is the local authority and there is Uisce Éireann. In fairness, one of the developers has done the legwork on this and has costed the works required. It is less than €80,000. There was a meeting with the four parties about two or three months ago where it was suggested that each of the four parties would contribute one quarter of the costs in lieu of the fact that 60 units have already been taken in charge, new development has occurred and there is more to come on stream. To me this seems like an inherently sensible approach to solve a legacy issue - one of the 500 on the Uisce Éireann list - for less than a €20,000 cost to Uisce Éireann out of a €1.6 billion budget.