Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Latent Defects: Discussion

Mr. Matt Cleary:

I thank Deputy O'Brien. As a managing agent for the company, Bohan Hyland, we manage over 80 sites. We are starting this process of project managing building upgrade works. The first thing one must do is meet the boards of management and owner management companies. The first thing said to us is: "It is not our fault so why us?" As the Deputy quite rightly said, the Statute of Limitations does not bode well for any management company to get any sort of recourse at all. We would like the statute increased to 12 years. As he said, we would like a two-pronged attack where there is another Statute of Limitations from the verified observation time.

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