State to spend €10m on fitting out ghost estates

The Government is to pump €10m into a ghost estate scheme so that developers will be more inclined to buy the unfinished homes.

The money will be used to pay for public works such as footpaths, drainage, and roads on estates without a developer bond.

Up to 60% of the schemes, which Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin said had “left both emot-ional and physical scars on this country”, remain unfinished.