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Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Throughout the city private companies increasingly operate and take charge.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I am trying to answer the question. Some management companies can be quite good and effective but many of them are not and are quite difficult. This is not a Government policy. Local authorities have the powers to deal with these issues. It is not controlled or directed by central Government. If local authorities want to act in a different way or impose restrictions they can do so when...

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Opposition parties could usefully direct their councillors in these areas to act on this as between them they have a majority.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Fine Gael——

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Fine Gael and Labour are responsible for these issues by and large because they do nothing about them. An argument can be made for introducing legislation on management companies. The fact that no legislation governs them arose as an issue in Dublin Corporation. Legislation should be in place. Some charges fall within the management companies' service charges and that is a different issue....

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Councillors from the Opposition parties form the majority in these councils and they should try to be more proactive in dealing with the issue.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: This involves a number of issues. A good and valid point on the control of management companies and how they are governed was made by Dublin city manager, Mr. John Fitzgerald, and I know that issue is being examined. The point made with regard to local authorities allowing developments and zones is not correct because they have power and a direct influence at local level when dealing with...

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: That is a different point.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Developers should not be allowed to charge and then not provide services, which happens in some areas. In other areas management companies provide extremely good services. They maintain the recreational standards of the area, provide leisure facilities and do gardening.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: In many areas.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: In many areas in my constituency not to mind elsewhere. Overall, the question of legislation will be examined but local authorities should not run away from their responsibilities.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: They have the power to direct and control these issues in many cases.

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The recommendations of the Nally report regarding the re-organisation of the Chief State Solicitor's office have been largely implemented. Agreement with the unions involved was achieved during 2001. The criminal prosecution functions undertaken by the Chief State Solicitor's office were transferred to the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions at the end of 2001. A common promotion pool...

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The CSSO has recruited mostly additional approved staff. The staffing complement has averaged about 225 over the past year. The office currently has 12 vacancies comprising one professional post, eight technical and three support staff posts. Similarly, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has recruited additional staff, as sanctioned, and currently has a serving staff complement...

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I did not.

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive, together. As regards the OECD report, I refer Deputies to previous answers where I have explained that many of its recommendations related to specific sectoral issues. I said the appropriate Ministers with responsibility for those sectoral areas are reporting directly to the House on progressing the OECD recommendations. I have also...

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: If I can separate the issues, the legislation listed by the Deputy covers a broad range of specialist areas. IFSRA was established for a particular reason in the financial area, likewise the Health and Safety Authority and many of the other regulatory bodies. I will deal first with regulatory impact analysis before coming to the issue of a super-regulator. Under regulatory impact analysis,...

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Maybe the Deputy's party will be on this side of the House.

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It would not be big into regulators.

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It worries me that the solution in almost every area is to get a regulator. This brings up a mass of issues. It is worth posing questions about the quality of decisions. Things have become more complex. Is the quality of decisions much greater than it used to be? The issue is complex and I accept that in some areas there is a huge amount of data, presentations and issues. We cannot have a...