Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

Last week I raised the legislation relating to management companies. Members have been raising this matter for approximately five years. We were eventually informed that this is a complex issue and that everyone, including the Attorney General, was examining it. Following a five-year gestation period, two Bills have been produced, namely, the Multi-Unit Development Bill 2009 and the Property Services Regulation Bill 2009. When I inquired about these Bills last week, I was informed that they had been sent to the Seanad and that we would be obliged to await their return.

I made some inquiries with the Seanad as to why these two items of legislation have not been returned to the Dáil and discovered that the two Ministers responsible for them have failed to bring forward the amendments which they indicated to the Seanad would be required before it would be possible to proceed. It is, therefore, the relevant Ministers who are delaying progress in respect of the two Bills, which have been with the Seanad since the summer. Will the Taoiseach intervene with the Ministers concerned and seek to have the Bills returned to the House as quickly as possible?

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