Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Nine hundred residents of Dublin's Longboat Quay have been instructed to cough up millions of euro for repairs to their homes because they were built without adequate fire safety measures. They have been told that, unless they do so by 1 November, they face eviction. Is the Taoiseach also aware that families that were allocated a block of 62 apartments in Prospect Hill on Dublin's Finglas Road have been told by Dublin City Council that there are health and safety issues with those apartments? The block is one of several on a larger site of more than 500 occupied apartments that may have the same problem. Is the Taoiseach aware of the Riverwalk Court complex in Ratoath, County Meath's version of Longboat Quay? Clearly, these are not isolated cases. Properties bought at considerable expense have been verified in report after report as being substandard and dangerous. How does the Taoiseach intend to reassure residents that unscrupulous property developers and not unfortunate residents will be held responsible for unsafe building work, given the fact that NAMA, local councils and the Government have been aware for years of these health and safety issues? Will the Taoiseach spell out the steps he has taken to deal with this scandalous situation? As to my primary question, will the Taoiseach indicate how many residential developments have been built without adequate safety measures?

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