Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I have regularly raised the issue of management companies for the last five years. There is legislation in this regard in the Upper House at the moment, but it does not deal at all with the reason I have been raising this repeatedly. I seek a mechanism to abolish management companies where they should not exist and to prevent their formation where they should not be formed; namely, in standard housing estates, where they are currently being used as financial providers for the developers who set them up. There are instances in which families in housing estates are paying €1,500 a year and receiving no service except that the grass is cut.

Last week the leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, asked the Taoiseach whether it was intended to bring in further legislation to deal with this problem and the Taoiseach responded that he was not certain but he would obtain the information for the Deputy. Has there been any development in that regard? Further legislation is required because the current legislation would need to be amended significantly to deal with the problems we have.

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