Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

I trust the Minister will actively get involved and sort out the problem when the law allows. He has said the local authority got involved in 2009. It should have been involved a long time before then. These properties should never have been sold, as they were not fit to be sold. The local authority must carry responsibility in that respect, as it should not have passed the building. The same is true of the bank valuer. The residents should not be paying their mortgages because the bank valuer was wrong to pass the apartments as fit to be bought. The builder is, no doubt, the biggest culprit. The builder, the architect and the engineer all need to be dealt with by the authorities. There has to be a law.

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