Mr. Sam Doran:

In our apartment block, we have 232 apartments with roughly 1,000 people living there. It is seven floors high - 22 m high - which is high risk because once it goes over 18 m, it is a different level of danger. We went for the interim fire safety funding first. That was supposed to be emergency funding to be given out to people straight away. Darragh O'Brien was on "Prime Time" and said that nobody would be left waiting and that there would be emergency funding, but it has not happened. What is wrong is that the cladding on our building is timber cladding. It is from the bottom to the top, from one end to the other. This is nailed on to 2" by 1" lats. There is a 50 mm void and then there is a 12 mm sheet of plywood. There are 7,500 square meters of timber and nothing in between straight into the apartment. We had two near balcony fires. If one goes on fire, there should be fire stopping in behind that. There should be fire barriers horizontally and vertically. It totally does not comply. These people are left going to bed every night in total danger. Two years on, the situation has not moved. I am the pathfinder, so I am the first one, but the people behind have not a hope in hell until we redo this whole scheme.