Lorraine Higgins (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that the Government will support local authorities in taking estates in charge. I hope this includes financial support. Leaving the responsibility to owners, developers and receivers when there are no funds in any of their accounts is not good enough. I also welcome the fact that a Bill to streamline the taking-in-charge process will be before the Houses. However, I will caution the Minister of State, in that this is not a matter of unfinished housing estates, but of incomplete ones. Different criteria apply. I hope that major efforts will be made to sort out the estates, particularly those in Galway because it is the area that I know best. I will write to the Department to ensure that it happens.