Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I will ask about two aspects of this. First, what will happen in the case of management companies where there are serious and known fire safety defects but the management company is not engaging? That can be very unfair on the individual homeowners and residents. As the Minister knows, management companies are not properly regulated and they need to be. What will the Minister do about that?

The second issue is where homes with serious fire safety defects are being sold on, often to unsuspecting buyers. There have been a number of instances of this. It causes huge stress and hardship when people discover they have put their life savings into buying a defective home. Will anything be done about that? I draw the Minister's attention to an article in The Ditchpublished this week. It detailed the failure of a management company in an area of north Dublin to deal with fire safety defects that first came to light in 2012 for several years. I ask the Minister to address those two particular aspects.

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