Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that the Senator is interested in resolving the issue. The Department has a funding programme in place to help resolve it but it will take a number of funding cycles to do so. If there is anything else the Senator wants to say or if she has any other information, she should please feel free to provide it to the Minister or the Department and the relevant officials will consider it.

Given the significant funding liability required to sustainably resolve issues relating to these type of estates that are dotted around the country, the Department has asked Irish Water to carry out a study to support it in developing the best solutions. The study will be finished by the summer and will inform future iterations of the funding programme. I hope that the Senator will tell residents that there is money available but that the work is not going to be done at once and that we are trying to work out the best possible way to spend it.