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

On Monday, residents of a number of apartment and duplex complexes affected by defects came together. They are part of the Not Our Fault campaign and were announcing the major public conference on Saturday, 19 November in the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght. These people bought their apartments or duplexes in good faith, did everything right and now face bills of up to €68,000. This is not their fault but that of successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments that allowed a system of self-certification to reign and of the cowboy builders who jumped through it. There are up to 100,000 victims of that system. The Tánaiste will be Taoiseach again shortly. Will he give a commitment that any scheme introduced will be retrospective? Will he accept the only just and workable solution is 100% redress, with the State then pursuing the builders responsible?

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