Mr. Barry Mulhern:

Mr. Scott talked about situations where defects occurred as a consequence of fire safety material being put in but not being put in properly. What we have found is that the fire safety material simply was not installed at all. I heed the Chair's comments about defamation and so on but I do not know if that was cost-cutting or time cutting. It was not a case of stuff not being done properly; it was simply a matter of things not being done at all.

I will go back to what Deputy Ó Broin said. I have a safety certificate that says my apartment is fire compliant. I know for a fact that my apartment is not fire compliant and I know for a fact that the county council did not conduct even one inspection. So it goes back to the comments that have already been made about light-touch regulation or self-regulation. It was entirely predictable that this was going to happen. We know, for a fact, that the developer who built our apartments is trading under a different name but doing substantial works. We have asked the question but it has not yet been confirmed. We believe that they have received work from the State to do work. To go back to what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan said, it is not a double injustice but a quadruple injustice because the developer has done this to us yet the State has turned around and handed them money to build things, which is an exceptionally bitter pill to swallow.