Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is also an obligation on local authorities to take over unfinished housing estates where the developer has gone bust and a mechanism is not in place to complete the necessary works. A number of local authorities have drawn up lists of relevant estates and are trying to find funding to improve them. Irish Water will only take over estates that are complete and meet certain standards. Where an estate is substandard and the developer has gone bust or no management company is in place, who will fund the works required to bring it to a certain standard? I raise this question because the cost may be borne by taxpayers.