Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question is about the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill 2017, CIRI, which the Minister of State, Deputy English, has described as critical for the development of a culture of confidence and compliance in the construction industry. A story in The Irish Timesby Niamh Towey today reports on how the developer of an apartment block, Cathedral Court in Dublin 8, has now taken control of the management company and is trying to charge owners of properties with latent defects €5,000 a head, despite the fact that it was the developer that sold them the apartments. Will the Minister use this Bill to bring forward stronger protections for apartment owners with latent defects to remove conflicts of interest such as the one that is clearly present in this case in Dublin 8? Will he also introduce a latent defects redress scheme so that owners of apartments are not left carrying the can for failures of builders, developers and weak Government regulation?

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