Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Senator Daly raised the issue of Longboat Quay. I agree with him and all of my other colleagues who raised the issue that this is an appalling situation for the 600 householders in 300 apartments who face, as others have said, a bill of what appears to be about €18,000 each. I know negotiations are ongoing. The residents have been reported today as being in close contact with the Dublin Docklands Development Authority and with the receiver for McNamara builders. We all echo the sentiments that have been expressed so strongly here that the householders - the apartment owners and residents - should not have to foot the bill for this appalling failure of regulation. The matter dates back to the Celtic tiger boom, to light-touch regulation and to the ridiculous system of self-certification-----