Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

I will make a few points before we finish up. I have read through the opening statement. I come from Longford, where there would not be a significant number of apartment buildings, but the whole management company issue is something we suffered on the back of the Celtic tiger and section 23. Housing estates were developed and built, management companies had to be put in place and, generally, the contractor or developer, maybe six months afterwards, wrote to the Companies Registration Office, CRO, which took their name off the management company and basically left it with the residents. In a lot of cases, it was package treatment plants and so on that ended up packing up. There were issues like that. I acknowledge all of it.

The committee needs to highlight the fact this issue has not transferred from justice to housing. That is the reason the Housing Agency and others were meant to be at this meeting, when we planned this months ago. It should be done. We need to highlight that as something that needs to happen.

I am astounded to hear the number of applications that have been made, etc., without one grant having been paid out.