Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise a crisis situation facing hundreds of apartment and duplex owners in a major housing complex in Dublin South-West. Because of fire safety defects when they were constructed, they potentially face being locked out from accessing their apartments with the common areas being closed down by the fire officer. They are being told that each apartment and duplex owner will have to pay €15,000 to remedy these issues. Many of the people simply do not have that money; it is simply not possible. This is not their fault nor is it the fault of others in similar circumstances to them across Dublin and throughout the country. They did not know this when they bought their apartments; they could not possibly have known. They are the victims of an era of self-certification, poor regulation and shoddy building practices. The State needs step in here. We need to have a redress scheme to enable the work to be done.

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