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- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I refrained from a riposte because the issue-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----I want to raise with the Taoiseach is of significant seriousness.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Some months after the scandal of the fire hazard at Priory Hall, which is causing awful hardship to the innocent residents there, another fire hazard scandal is unfolding at Belmayne, which is also on the north Dublin fringe. Kitara developers have written to hundreds of apartment owners to tell them they might have to move out of their homes for three or four days to allow fire hazards to...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I will have no problem repeating it outside the Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: When the Minister of State with responsibility for housing at Cabinet level, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, spoke in this Dáil 16 hours ago, she repeated what Dublin City Council told her, which is that this issue first came to light just one month ago when a leaking pipe led to an investigation that showed up-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----some fire problems. That is a blatant lie.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: In March 2011, the Dublin chief fire officer and the assistant fire officer had a three-hour meeting with residents.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Terence Flanagan was in attendance. These problems and serious issues were unveiled and acknowledged at that meeting. A fire officer who visited saw the full extent of the problem.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: In July, the chief fire officer wrote to residents-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to say there was no problem.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I will not withdraw it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: For a year now, the innocent residents-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----have been abused, lied to and sent around the houses in regard to this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Can I ask the Taoiseach if he will-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I read the Minister of State's statement.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It suggested that the council said to the Minister of State that this issue came to light on 19 January last. I assure the House that is a lie.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach instruct-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: I want the Taoiseach to ask-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach instruct the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to investigate immediately-----