Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 273: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the committee he set up to consider the issues surrounding taking estates in charge and management companies will conclude their work; if their report will be published; if that report will be published within the lifetime of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11962/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department set up a Working Group on Management Companies/Taking in Charge of Estates which considered 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. The Group has now completed its work and it is intended to issue guidance shortly to planning authorities based on the outcome of its deliberations.