Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

This is not the answer I was expecting. My question very clearly asks when the legislative framework will be put in place. County and city managers across the country are prepared to move ahead with the scheme. The legal difficulties to which the Minister of State referred were worked out as far back as 2005. The city councils in both Dublin and Cork were part of a working group which considered topics such as sinking funds and the regulations on the freehold and title hold of selling these types of properties. The Minister in the previous Government gave a commitment as far back as 2005 that the legislative framework would be put in place in that period. What has happened in the ten years since 1997?

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