Mr. Sam Doran:

It is down to individual OMCs whether they want to withhold people because they have not got their management fees up. The proxy can be passed on to the tenant or anybody.

The new home for everybody is apartments. That is the way it is going. They are going through a hall door and there 30 or 40 families in there. It is important that they get on. There are young people, young people rearing families, old people downsizing, people with disabilities and foreign nationals there that are used to different ways in their lives. We believe it should be one vote per person in a development regardless of how many units. As the Deputy said, somebody who is a corporate landlord outside of the country does not know even know what the development is like, they are voting for their interests and not for how the people get on a day-to-day basis to build a community.

In our place, we are a fairly large development. All those people I spoke about have a great community. People get on well because we engage with them all. Most importantly going forward, it should be one vote in a unit regardless. Due to the fire defects, some corporate landlords got together and voted for levies, and then these poor people who could not pay were brought before the court. They have €30,000 or €40,000 in debt against them now. Their credit rating is totally non-existent. They still have these debts and we cannot get them shifted because that was the law. One vote per person in a development is a must to come back in to give those people a say in their development and what they want going forward.