Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Page 28 of the programme for Government commits to conducting a review of national building standards. The residents and owners of businesses in Brú na Sionna in Shannon town have become the latest community to join the list of those who have discovered fire safety problems in their homes and they are now facing substantial bills due to bad planning. Brú na Sionna is a complex of 240 units consisting of houses and apartments. Local Shannon councillor Mike McKee told me this morning that the management company is looking for sums ranging from €7,000 to €28,000 from each owner to address these issues, even if there are no actual problems with his or her own individual unit. This is disgraceful and follows numerous other issues with core building standards and fire problems across the country.

Will the Government commit to bringing forward legislation to enact the key recommendation in the "Safe as Houses" cross-party housing committee report, which calls for a redress fund funded by industry and State to support those residents in homes with latent defects where the builder has gone bust and access to HomeBond has expired?

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