Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

The councillors in Kildare will have an opportunity to do that and to shape things to a more satisfactory extent when the report of the sub-committee they have established comes back.

We cannot just walk away from this. We all have a responsibility to do what we must. The Law Reform Commission has been asked to provide a report on the legal issues relating to management companies and it would be premature to propose amendments to legislation at this stage. I hear what Deputy Upton says and will examine the points she makes, but when we have asked the Law Reform Commission to give us legal opinion on this, it would be our opinion that to move now would be premature. The Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government have given a guarantee that as soon as the report is published by the Law Reform Commission, we will act on it.

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