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

It is more than 250 days since the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien, met with homeowners affected by Celtic tiger fire safety and structural defects about a redress scheme. At that meeting, the Minister promised the homeowners three things. First, that funding would be made available this year for emergency fire safety works, particularly for those homes that are currently unsafe; second, that draft legislation would be published this year for the wider redress scheme; and third, that there would be a retrospective provision included in that legislation for those people who are currently undertaking structural remediation works. Can the Taoiseach tell us if Government intends to make that funding for those essential emergency works available this year? Can he also recommit to publishing the legislation by the end of the year, and confirm that the Government's position remains that that funding will be retrospective?

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