Dáil debates

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

 

3:35 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach will be aware that there are many thousands of people with defects in their homes arising from the behaviour of the cowboy builders of the Celtic tiger era. The latter did even not deem it necessary to build proper houses. People are facing huge bills in the context of fire safety issues, water ingress and so on. There is one particular case that I would like the Taoiseach to look into, namely, that relating to Carrickmines Green. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is control of that estate and is refusing to remedy building defects, even though it has done so elsewhere. I am told by residents that NAMA has sold units to people who do not know that there are serious building defects. This is despite the fact that the residents themselves cannot sell, get insurance and so on. The Minister for Finance should instruct NAMA and its liquidators to remediate those homes as it has done in other estates where it has been in control of the properties.

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