Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 574: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to introduce legislative measures to limit the operation of management companies to multi-unit developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32605/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has already informed planning authorities that they should not attach planning conditions relating to management companies in the case of traditional housing estates, unless in very specific exceptional circumstances, e.g. holiday home developments, or to maintain a specific private shared facility. As the Deputy is aware, my Department has set up a Working Group on Management Companies/Taking in Charge of Estates which is considering the question of responsibility for the maintenance of common shared facilities (roads, sewerage, footpaths, public lighting, large open spaces, smaller landscaped open spaces, car-parking, etc) in residential estates, including the newer type of mixed high-density estate. It is intended to issue guidance to planning authorities based on the outcome of the Group's work, by the end of 2006 or in early 2007.