Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

He stated that all the people who live on estates that are subject to management charges have to do is request the local authority to conduct a plebiscite and if a majority of householders state they want the local authority to take the estate in charge, the local authority must do so. We will put the Government to the test on that. We will ask every Labour Party councillor in the country to table motions in every local authority requiring the local authority to conduct that plebiscite in each of the estates where these management companies exist and where there is concern about them. If it turns out that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, is correct, that is fine, but if it turns out that there are problems with section 180 such as Deputy Murphy and I identified last night, we will come back to the House and wrap this issue around the neck of the Minister of State and that of the Minister.

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