Mr. Pat Montague:

Yes, they are unsafe and Mr. Lambe and Mr. Doran will attest to their experiences with fires. The Deputy has made a very good point. I am concerned that there is almost a sense of complacency about this issue. It is almost as though because we have not had casualties yet, everything is okay. There are a number of examples and I have mentioned two, one of which Mr. Lambe can speak about in a minute, which is Clarion Quay. Another example is a building on the north side of Dublin city centre. For the residents on the top floor, the escape route is a wooden walkway on top of the apartments underneath. That wooden pathway is placed on, in some cases, the kitchens of the apartments underneath. In kitchens, there are stoves, ovens and electrical appliances and fires happen. The problem for the residents is that if a fire happens between their front door and the stairwell to escape, they are in big trouble. We have been aware of this issue and it is one of the pilot projects for the interim remediation scheme, thankfully, because we insisted that it be on that. That is an extraordinary level of vulnerability for the people on the top floor and it is not unique.