Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I will be brief. The management companies, funded by those who bought houses in these estates, must pay for the jobs the developer is required to carry out. We have been promised three Bills in this matter, one each from the Departments of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Enterprise, Trade and Employment, respectively. Only one Bill has appeared on the list of legislation. The Bill we were promised from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in March was to be the start of the process of establishing some form of control and regulation for management companies and would allow those companies that are not required to be abolished and people to get their money back. While we were promised legislation in the three areas I outlined, progress is not being made on them.

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