It finds the “common thread” to the origin of defects was a lack of understanding of the complexities of constructing the buildings that ran through construction professionals, developers, insurers, financiers and lenders, with limited regulatory oversight at local authority level.
Owners, the report finds, are left with a dearth of legal options – despite the statutory position being “clear” that primary responsibility for making sure works are compliant “rests with the owners, designers and builders of buildings”. Between 40 and 70 per cent of properties with defects may have fire safety failings, the report finds, with water ingress impacting between 20 and 50 per cent and structural safety defects in between 5 and 25 per cent.Sinking funds set up to maintain properties are “often stretched” and are “not a permissible or a likely source of funding for addressing defects”, it says.
It finds that the majority of properties are out of their period of insurance cover and would be unlikely to be covered in any event.
Lads I’m telling ye people are going to get very violent, very soon.
Builders and mire so bad architects get away with murder and the ordinary man pays threw the nose. Disgrace
We can’t make them pay, disgusting but not surprising. Problem is we’re still doing deals with them and their new shell companies. Rotten to the core. The Galway Tent, the Developers, and Fianna Fáil, a serpents lair. Serpents still developing, serpents still in Dáil Éireann.
FF and the others agreed not to inspect new housing and not to insist on local inspectors (as is common elsewhere) because they thought they could avoid liability themselves if they didn't see it. Dodgy builders lobbied them for self inspection. This is the expected result.
So it's the tax payer again then
So all insured persons are all collectively on the hook for the Quinn Insurance collapse, which was a result of dodgy management and regulatory failure? But somehow nothing can be done in this situation to recoup from the indemnity insurers and underwriters of these schemes?
the reason literally translates to 'ah it would be a lot of work' .. but it's not a lot of work for management companies to demand the tenants pay the costs. if I was one of the tenants this would send me absolutely postal. state aided robbery. as openly bare faced as that.
Shambolic nonsense letting dodgy practices stand leaving homeowners to foot the bill and a future levy (who’ll be paying that I wonder) to “fix” the problem.
Why the hell not?
Sickening.
The mafia have nothing on these guys!
A quick read of this article: Summary. We cant locate some builders of these schemes so impossible to hold them all to account so we will let them all off the hook. Let's make the state pay for the lot and add even more profits to the original builders by PAYING them to fix it
Why should taxpayers foot the bill at ALL other than limited hardship relief. especially for commercially owned properties , eg owned by vulture funds. What law exactky says if I buy something I can sue the state for faulty workmanship in perpetuity?
Keep voting for these criminals FineGael fiannafailparty ...
What a corrupt kip we live in, WeWantAnElection
Ah sure lookit !
Profits are capitalised, and losses are socialised and paid for by the taxpayer. That’s the legacy of poor regulation. Yet the ministers still draw their fat pensions.
Ah, what a relationship between builders and politicians, never ceases to amaze how much they love each other and have the country’s interests at heart.
Do not get this country at times
This is infuriating. Yet again the taxpayer foot the bill. Yet again developers protected. Yet again failures exposed and nothing done. Yet again policies not fit for purpose. HowIrelandWorks WeWantAnElection
Govt decides it can't mess around with any of its historical contributors. Quelle surprise.
Fantastic. What a precedent this is. Every cowboy in the country can now point to this report and renege on every botched job in every trade and beyond. Our country is governed by the most pathetic group of losers in the history of the state. Serve the people me arse.
This is bollocks. The pursuit of costs against negligent actors is precisely what the courts are for. Once again, Ireland demonstrates its corruption.
Plenty of them got their debts wrote off
This is bull!! If there was a will there’d be a way! FFG were never going to make those who bankroll them pay for this
More blanket immunity for defective work and products....the public pays again ..that's the industrial mindset on steroids
Again, no regulation, and the culprits walk away with no reprocussions and are free to build again. Why have insurance or inspectors if they're pointless.....insanity.
“The more someone has, the harder it is to take from them”, Leaders are afraid of the wealthy. How many tax scandals involve poor / average earners? Ansbacher anyone?
Of course they are not going to make their friends pay for the damage of the boom. They make the people who had nothing to do with the faults pay. The public... That's the fffgg way. Screw the public as always.
Why isn’t the Government using its powers through regulations to legally pursue those responsible? Mind boggles. Thousands of Donegal families are now using these regulations in High Court to obtain shortfall btwn the Gov grant and actual cost to fix their homes RightThisTime
They paid into an insurance fund & the councils collected monies off developers for roads, lights etc...ask johnmcdonnellMP jeremycorbyn LaylaMoran how they got their builders to pay...Irish laws British laws more or less the same..
Of course not, protect the FFG party donors.
Did we really need a report to tell us that? Until we have active building compliance inspections that can stop them in their tracks nothing will change. Bought my 1st new house in 1999, the snag list included ~20 items that Didn’t meet building regs at the time, I had to chase
These cowboys are back building more houses under a different company name.... round and round we go! When will the government take action and stop this behaviour
Well there's a shocker JackHoJo
Of course not.
Imagine that!!!!once again another bunch of plonkers get off Scott free and the taxpayer picks up the tab.... what a f..king country.
Johnny Ronan
But it is feasible for tax payers to pay to fix peoples houses!
So basically they are just broadcasting to all builders that they can cut costs, do a shit job and the government will fixed it. Seems like a counterproductive lesson to teach.