Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Finally, we should not give exemptions to people who abuse them. There have been three cases. I know the one in my constituency very well. Our local authority was exasperated at the lengths it had to go to get the property owner, IPAS, and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to comply with the most basic level of fire safety in a building in which we were putting people fleeing war and persecution. There is more the Minister of State’s officials can do to square that circle, notwithstanding enforcement and building management resting elsewhere. If they keep doing this, we should be more careful about what exemptions we give them.