Mary Moran (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise an issue I raised on Thursday last in an Adjournment debate concerning a ghost estate where two families live in houses that are not properly connected to the main sewer. The estate was built as an eco-friendly, state-of-the art facility with high class woodchip burning equipment, but the heating system has not worked. In his reply, the Minister said all remediation work had been carried out in the estate in February 2012, yet for another weekend those families were without heat. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister with responsibility for housing to the House for a debate on ghost housing estates. The people in these houses are living in dreadful conditions. One of the families has two small children and they are living in a house that has three and a half walls in open ground that is highly dangerous.