Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

There is court procedure.

As I stated at the outset, we need to consider where we are going with regard to planning. Let us forget about the personalities and everything else. We must consider what to do to repair the damage that has been done and give those living in unfinished estates throughout the country some idea that their investments will be protected and the estates will be repaired. If heads are knocked together in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Social Protection, surely a scheme can be put together to ensure this happens.

As Deputies Dowds and Tuffy mentioned, communities are without facilities. Perhaps now that we have a register of unfinished estates the next central project to address the issue will be an audit of education, transport and retail facilities in communities such as those in Dublin Mid West so we can start working on putting these facilities in place now, when it may be easier to do so than it will be in a few years time and than it was previously.

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