Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to debate the Landlord and Tenants Act. I have received a number of complaints from neighbours of tenants who, to put it mildly, are neighbours from hell. One such complaint came from a lady who lives alone. Her next-door neighbours made her life a living hell. When she complained to the landlord, he said he would take up the matter with the chairman of the residents' association. If ever there was an example of a Pontius Pilate on an issue, the landlord was one. Meanwhile, this lady's home is made a hell, day and night. Issues of parental control arise, although not so much how the parents control the children, as they seem to have no control, but how the children control the parents.

I would welcome an early debate on the matter. It is an issue that is raised with my office on a regular basis and I would like to think something can be done. It is certain the landlord is not discharging his responsibilities to the neighbour of his tenants, and the tenants are not discharging their responsibilities to their fellow man, in this case their fellow woman.