Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I will. To move on, there is an issue of the areas taken in charge. There are cases in some instances where maintenance of parts of a development which will be taken in charge is paid for by the management company in the meantime. With another well known development company, even though the management company is up and running, the title of the common areas has not been transferred to the management company. In effect, the management company is looking after land it does not own and people are paying for that.

I am very disappointed with what I have heard from the Government to date. Everything I heard today from the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, I heard before by way of parliamentary questions from the Minister opposite or in previous debates. We saw the report of the Office of Corporate Enforcement, as well as a report from the National Consumer Agency and an interim report from the Law Reform Commission. This has been ongoing for six years and I do not have confidence that the Government takes the issue seriously or will introduce legislation.

I guarantee the parties opposite, including the Green Party and Fianna Fáil, that this will be a significant campaign issue in the run-up to the local elections. If legislation is not in place and implemented by then, the parties will pay for it.

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