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

The Taoiseach said it twice yesterday. He said it twice deliberately to get the headlines he got. He said it here and at a press conference. That is the truth of it.

It is a year since the Government received the report into defects in apartments, which revealed the shockingly widespread nature of serious defects, mostly fire defects, in the majority of apartments and duplexes constructed between 1991 and 2013 as a consequence of the regime of self-certification. At the start of this year, thankfully, the Government said we were going to have a 100% redress scheme with retrospection. However, there has not been any action. It has not done anything to help these people. In particular, there have been no moves on emergency funding.

The other day in Park West, there was almost a very serious fire. We know there are defects there. That building was highlighted in "Prime Time". When someone threw a cigarette butt out of a balcony, it blew back in and landed on artificial grass, which went on fire. We need emergency action now. The 100,000 families simply cannot wait.

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