Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

What is the current situation in regard to the long-promised legislation dealing with management companies? The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform circulated a two page letter which highlighted all the difficulties he has identified and all the different parties he has consulted, including builders and developers. It looks as if the prospect of getting this legislation in the lifetime of this Dáil is fading away.

In my constituency and in many others, tens of thousands of people, in particular young people, in negative equity are-----

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