Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

On the matter of promised legislation, management companies continue to be set up like mushrooms growing in a field on a May morning and they are simply a new rip off cash cow for developers. They provide relatively no services to the people concerned. They are not needed. They are in housing estates where there is not an apartment within 2 km of them. They continue to be set up with the connivance or certainly the agreement of county managers in respect of which planning permission is readily granted.

We were promised three pieces of legislation to control the setting up of these companies but only one of them, from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, is in sight. Is there any chance of having sight of the legislation promised from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, the Minister for which is sitting beside the Tánaiste, and by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment? We were told these three pieces of legislation are needed before these companies can be controlled and country managers put in their place.

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