Labour calls for action on unfinished estates

THE Labour Party has called on the Government to act on the scandal of unfinished housing estates after an Irish Examiner investigation revealed thousands of householders living in developments with inadequate roads and public lighting and substandard sewage treatment plants.

Seán Sherlock, Labour TD for Cork East, said a national response was needed to support families who had paid substantial sums of money for their homes but who “now find that they are having to cope with derelict sites, unfinished houses, roads not finished, incomplete sewage systems, and no public lighting”.

“In some cases families are unable to let their children out to play because of the dangers posed by living in what is often still a building site,” Mr Sherlock said.