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

The programme for Government committed to examining the issue of latent building defects within the first year. A working group was set up and the expectation was that it would report to the Government in June of this year. Unfortunately, that deadline has been missed. As a consequence, tens of thousands of homeowners across the State will tonight sleep in homes with significant fire safety and other structural defects. In many cases, they face bills of between €15,000 and €60,000 to fix problems they did not cause and, in almost all cases, they cannot afford to pay to remedy. Will the Tánaiste give an indication of when he expects the working group to report to the Government on its deliberations? More important, when will the Government put in place a latent defects redress scheme for these struggling families?

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