Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Heydon managed to name all ten estates that are the subject of applications from Kildare County Council. They will be judged on the criteria. Submissions closed in September and Kildare got in on time with ten. An expert panel is being put together to judge the applications based on the criteria set down in the framework. That was based on the pilot scheme we had in the past. The panel will make those judgments and we expert it will be able to announce its decisions in early 2020. Work can begin throughout 2020 as well. There is an envelope of €31 million for the next couple of years. The number of estates in this category is probably about half of what we initially thought it would be, which is positive. There has been much change to housing developments in the last number of years, but there are potentially approximately 500 estates to be addressed. This allocation of funding will go a long way towards dealing with some of them and, hopefully, will bring badly needed resolution for residents who were let down by previous decisions. It is not so much that developer provided infrastructure was completely wrong, but that there was no plan to join it up and no logic to it. There was no monitoring of it and no quality assessment. It is basically down to how it was managed without any long-term thinking. That is what is being corrected now. There is a methodology set out on how to judge that and correct it in the future.

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