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

I recently met with homeowners and tenants in a development in Park West. They have recently learned that they have Celtic tiger-era defects to the tune of €70,000 per apartment. They need redress and support now. The concern I have from listening to the Minister’s response and from reading the letter he sent to the Construction Defects Alliance is that it sounds similar to the long, protracted process we saw with the defective blocks. There was a 12-month period before legislation was produced and passed. There is a six- to nine-month period where regulations have to be put into effect. In real terms, that means that these tens of thousands of homeowners could be looking at a scheme not being open or available until the middle or to the end of next year, with no available redress, no interim measures or no retrospective measures until 2024. Can the Minister at least give us some indication of his timeline for these pieces of work that he has outlined? What guarantee can he give us that we will not have the same delays in creating this new scheme as those we have seen with the controversial enhanced defective blocks scheme?

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