Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

A management company is not needed for an ordinary house. That is the reality. They were set up for apartments. In the last ten years with the recession, people said they would not pay this fee anymore because it was not justified, they could not afford it and they had lost their jobs. People see a millionaire in a mansion getting the grass cut in his or her estate and they have to pay for their little shrub to be maintained. That is the reality and people make these decisions for themselves.