Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

The programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce legislation to implement the recommendations outlined in the All-Party Committee on the Constitution's report on property rights. One of the recommendations is that legislation be introduced to implement the Kenny report, to regulate estate agents and auctioneers and to provide for transparency in land transactions throughout the State. It is obvious that such a Bill would be relevant to the circumstances we are currently facing. Issues such as land speculation have been raised this week. We need to introduce reforms to ensure that the current problems relating to land speculation do not recur in the future.

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