Management fees ‘a scam to enrich greedy developers’
Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins has launched a scathing attack on the local authorities in Dublin over the imposition of management fees on the residents of housing estates.
Speaking at a press conference in Dublin today, Mr Higgins said the councils were basically privatising public services by foisting management companies on thousands of householders.
Such companies are being established on new housing estates all over the city to maintain open spaces, roads, lighting and other services.
Residents are required to pay annual fees to these firms, which are often linked directly to the developers who built the estates in the first place.
A number of householders in the Tyrrelstown area of Dublin are being taken to court this Friday for refusing the pay the fees.
Mr Higgins said today that the whole management company structure was a scam designed to enrich greedy developers and help local authorities avoid their responsibility to provide upkeep services.
