Mr. Dónal Nugent:

Yes. In 2007, our county council discovered that there were fire safety defects within the apartments that it acquired in the estate. Between 2007 and 2015, the county council repaired its 44 apartments but did not notify everybody else in the estate until 2012 in a letter sent to the management companies. In 2012, I was not a director so I do not know whether that is true and have never seen the letter. In 2016, we received a letter in our letterboxes from a local Deputy stating that there could, potentially, be fire defects within the apartments. In 2007, Fingal County Council knew but did not notify everybody in the estate.

On the cost of repair works, our estate is made of different blocks - six-block timber frame and masonry built and four-block timber frame and masonry built. There are 42 six-block timber frame, which will cost €14,696 per apartment. The four-block timber frame, which is 28 people, will cost €13,503 per apartment. The six-block masonry will affect 12 people, which is €4,197 and the four-block masonry, which will affect four people, is €4,298. The all-in cost for the 86 apartments is in excess of €1 million to do repair works. The problem is that we need everybody in one block to agree to get this repaired or the work will not be done. The issue has been very stressful and taken hours, days and weeks of my life. To be honest, this has been the most stressful three years of my life.