Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understood, perhaps wrongly, that in the case of staff who transferred to Irish Water on a ten or 12 year contract, a mechanism might be in place under which they would receive a redundancy payment on leaving the local authority. I seek clarification on whether that is the case. This issue has been raised with me by councillors who have obtained information to that effect from directors of services in various local authorities.

On unfinished housing estates, the Minister of State's comments do not reflect what I am being told by directors of services in a number of local authorities, several of whom informed me in the past week that there was an obligation on local authorities, under current legislation, to take over finished housing estates.