Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

They did better that Tom McFeely.

Obviously, those cases involved smaller houses. There is no reason the construction industry, in the provision of public and private housing, should not have integrity and enjoy trust. One cannot paint everybody in the National Asset Management Agency and all developers and contractors with the same brush. Clearly, the McFeely episode, which was a disaster for the people of Priory Hall, is iconic. There are pieces to the jigsaw and what we are doing and must do is put in place a process whereby a person who signs for a mortgage to buy a property can have trust in a system that measures up and is compliant.

Deputy Boyd Barrett referred to a development in Dún Laoghaire and there may be other cases. The Priory Hall case was appalling. A resolution has been placed before the residents who will make their views known this week.

During the years when the so-called Celtic tiger was running around the country, I came across cases of planning authorities refusing requests to build a single house in a particular location because it would obstruct the view, yet in certain circumstances the same local authority said it was fine to build 100 houses. The Deputy can see such developments himself.

There is pressure from families with three or four children who are living in one or two bedroom apartments and need housing.

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