Seanad debates

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

10:30 am

Photo of Martin ConwayMartin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for this Bill. We have too many approved housing bodies in this country. It is good that this Government has decided to introduce a method to properly regulate them. There is no doubt that most, if not all, approved housing bodies do a good job. However, I wonder sometimes if it is necessary to have so many, all with CEOs, financial controllers and so on. Perhaps we should be encouraging various such bodies to merge to try to create efficiencies. It is important to have a regulator. Local authorities and the Department are questioned and are held accountable. It is good to see that there will be more oversight of approved housing bodies which get millions of euro in State funding. The Bill is welcome and I thank all parties for their co-operation in passing it.

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