Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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In my constituency of Cork North-Central we have a small village called Carrignavar. Mr. Doyle might be aware of it. A new special school with 80 places cannot go ahead because of the lack of a wastewater connection. Ten houses have been lying idle since 2009 that Cork City Council wants to buy but cannot buy because there is no wastewater connection. Mr. Doyle will appreciate the fact that because the wastewater treatment plant there is full, it is stopping the progress of the acquisition of social homes and the opening of a special school. That is a serious issue.