Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien said remediation work already completed, or currently under way, on apartments and duplexes will be covered by the scheme.He said fire safety is the biggest issue followed by water ingress problems in these properties.
Mr Martin said the initiative is designed to"benefit those who have significant defects in terms of their apartments and so on". Richard Boyd Barrett said that should"not be a block on the State guaranteeing full remediation and full retrospection for the tens of thousands of people whose homes are defective from fire safety or water egress".
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne, he said a lot of buildings had no cavity barriers so that if a fire were to break out in one apartment, the smoke would travel through that cavity and into other apartments. "Such works will need to be agreed with local authority Fire Services and the details of this process will be worked out as a priority and provided in due course."
"I remain committed to establishing an independent building standards regulator with effective powers of inspection and enforcement and an appropriate suite of sanctions," he added. "If an owners' management company is to proceed with the works, they need to know what is going to be refunded and what is not if we are going to have 100% retrospective redress as well," he said.
Amazing country. Now paying on the double for corners cut by shoddy builders who overcharged the home owners originally and broke the banks and the country in the process.thats bad enough but back in business to repeat the process all over again
Tax payers bailing out builders/developers, again Will we ever learn 🙄
no mention made of expected remediation to schools, hotels and nursing homes. DarraghOBrienTD, member of cutehoor fiannafail, keeping that taxpayer bill for another day. rtept newstalk Independent
mcculld asking DarraghOBrienTD on Six One the obvious question on behalf of Donegal people who are not getting a fully-funded scheme. micaredress
Irish builders😂😂😂😂