Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Shannon Commercial Enterprises, the successor to Shannon Development, is selling 5 acres of land in the Quin Road, Ennis. What has that to do with the Minister? In one corner of that land and part of the sale is a sewage pumping station into which flows sewage from Celtic tiger estates which have been taken into charge. Then it is pumped on to a State-owned treatment facility.

Shannon’s position is that after the sale, Irish Water will be free to engage with the purchaser but after the sale Irish Water will effectively be over a barrel – a barrel of sewage flowing backwards into estates that have been taken into charge. Does the Minister agree that is not a way to treat assets owned by State agencies, that that manner of treating them potentially exposes the Exchequer unnecessarily to a very large bill and that this sale should be reviewed in that context?

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