Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

It is important that the issue I was raising to the effect that the adjoining owner should be able to look to the court for the building owner to undo the damage, has been dealt with by the Minister. I am happy enough with that, so I intend to withdraw amendment No. 18.

Unless I am mistaken I do not believe the Minister has dealt with the issue raised by amendment No. 19 in his amendment, whereby the building owner may get access to the adjoining owner's land. When we were discussing that at the Dáil select committee, the Minister accepted I had a point, namely, that it was very important the building owner should be able to have access to the neighbour's lands. I wonder why the Minister had not dealt with that issue in his amendment.

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