Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

The legislation in respect of agents and auctioneers will be published early next year. I propose to proceed with that legislation with dispatch.

I agree with Deputy Rabbitte that there have been abuses in this area. There has been a lack of regulation of the agents who provide the services and the traditional model of company law which applies to these companies is not appropriate to the companies that have been established on such a large scale in many new developments.

Some element of management company or management system is desirable in multi-unit developments in order to ensure that common services are properly maintained.

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