Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty is that the developer is left with responsibility for it because of the way the legislation is worded. Why was the reference changed from residents - that is, the people who are on the register of electors - to the legal owners? Given the amount of bureaucracy involved in proving legal ownership, would it not make more sense to use the property register as a mechanism to identify owner-occupiers, who have a long-term interest in their estates, rather than landlords or developers?

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