Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I raised the issue of management companies and their abuse of householders and the fact that there is no regulation for them previously. There are five pieces of legislation listed on the pink sheet for the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. One Bill, No. 15, seeks to provide for the establishment of a property services regulatory authority to give effect to the report of the auctioneering review group. I am very interested in that but, as far as I can see, it will have no effect whatever on management companies, certainly not with that title. We were told last week that there would be legislation this term from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on this matter. We were promised two other pieces of legislation, one from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the other from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. There is no sign of those two. All that seems to be on the horizon is a Bill to regulate auctioneers. We were promised this as a matter of urgency in the last term and were told those Bills would be coming forward but there is no sign of them. I ask the Taoiseach to find out from the Ministers what are their intentions and why they are not bringing forward the legislation.

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