Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I welcome the publication of the Bill to regulate management companies but I am disappointed that it will not outlaw management companies for single-unit standard housing or cover the abolition of existing management companies of this kind. Is it the Government's intention to deal with this in a separate Bill? The problem to which I refer is one of the greatest we have had, and we have been pursuing it now for approximately seven years. I welcome the Bill that has been published, which I hope is the first stage in addressing this matter. The main stage concerns management companies for standard housing. Planning permission guidelines required that such companies be imposed on the residents in standard housing. There is nothing in the published Bill to deal with that at all according to my reading of it. Is there another Bill?

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