Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Up to 100,000 families and individuals are living in dangerously defective homes that are fire hazards, have water ingress, chronic damp, structural defects and cracks everywhere, all because of the disgusting greed of property developers who were facilitated every step of the way by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the feeding frenzy that was the Celtic tiger. These people have been left with the bitter consequences. Of course, the mica and pyrite families and households had to fight every step of the way and are still not being given the support and full redress they deserve.

One very specific example is the Carrickmines Green apartments. There are 235 apartments in that complex. NAMA took it over and the receiver acting on behalf of NAMA was informed by the residents of the fire defects. They pleaded with the receiver to remediate them. Eventually, under pressure, it remediated them but when the residents did another audit, they found there were still fire defects. The remediation has not been done and now NAMA and the receiver want to sell some of those apartments to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for social housing, with the defects still there. Even though NAMA has remediated other developments, it will not do it for these. It is trying to force the residents in Carrickmines Green to carry the can. It is absolutely outrageous. I have brought this up with the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, as have others. What is being done to these people, when a State agency, NAMA, is involved, is an absolute outrage. As well as the more general demand for 100% redress, I am asking the Government to engage with those residents and to tell NAMA to remediate these homes, given that it is responsible for that estate.

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