Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

When is it proposed that legislation will be enacted to give a statutory basis to the shadow authority which has been established? Does the Minister accept that significant abuses are affecting thousands of young people?

Some of these property management companies operate as intended for a defined set of services but many of them do not. Many of them are front companies for the developer and they are up to every trick in the book. They know the local authority will not take the estate into charge until it is completed. They will retain a unit in the development so as to forestall other elements of company law that would normally give the residents the ability to direct the affairs of a management property company so that they would have some say in critical decisions.

I ask the Minister to be more precise in his answer to the House as to when these proposals are likely to come before the House.

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