I join in welcoming the good news announced yesterday by the Kerry Group. It shows that the agrifood industry is up and running. It can solve our current economic problems and we should support the industry in every way.

I want to refer to the news that has broken over the past couple of days about the failure of sewage treatment systems, particularly in Longford, and the health risks posed to residents living in an estate. We should debate such estates which are in NAMA. I am aware of a number of them in the north west where people are living in houses but the sewage treatment facilities are inadequate and unfinished. I do not know how their solicitors who arranged their mortgages signed such contracts.

Hear, hear.

The sewerage systems were unfinished. In many cases tankers draw sewage away from these estates. Who is responsible? The issue must be sorted out as a matter of urgency.