Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I made the point to Deputy McDonald that the Longboat Quay apartments were a combination of a number of entities, and the Minister, Deputy Kelly, met with personnel about this yesterday.

This is an example of the worst kind of situation in our country, where people who went off legitimately and got their money to buy their homes or apartments or houses found afterwards that, for reasons beyond their control, these were not what they thought they were. At the end of the day, somebody probably expects the taxpayer to fork out for all of these things. The situation is that responsibility is vested, and was vested, in the regulations and the conditions that were granted when planning permission was granted in the first place.

I do not know the answer to Deputy Adams's question, but I will take the places that he has mentioned and ask the Minister, Deputy Kelly, and the authorities to carry out investigations on those places, but I am convinced that there are probably others in other locations around the country where, unfortunately, the same situation actually applies.

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