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

Over the past number of weeks, Niamh Towey and Jack Horgan-Jones have been reporting in The Irish Timesabout new stories of latent defects. Homeowners in Sandyford have had to pay €10,000 to rectify defects while homeowners in Blackrock have had to pay €25,000. One homeowner in County Clare must foot a bill of €62,000 for latent defects for which the homeowner had no responsibility. Given that it is almost two years since the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government unanimously called for the creation of a latent defects redress fund, will the Government move to introduce such a scheme?

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