Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

For thousands of householders and organisations like the Construction Defects Alliance and the Apartment Owners Network, which have campaigned for years, the announcement in January for the interim fire redress scheme brought immense relief. Like many households that are facing water ingress issues and structural damage, we await the legislation and full redress scheme on which I would appreciate some update.

Under the new interim scheme, however, owner management companies, OMCs, will receive funding to carry out the necessary remedial works. Only applications from authorised representatives of OMCs will be considered. Many OMCs around the country face enormous problems, particularly when it comes to management and financing. As we know, OMC board directors are volunteers living within the development who are doing their best but have little or no background or expertise in management and no guidance or manuals to help them with their governance. The programme for Government commits to reviewing the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 to regulate OMCs. Could we have an update on the commitment, please?

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