it’s an absolute disgrace liam,hope it all works out for all of you guys,you’ve been treated terribly

Thank you Mick for the support, we can only hope something breaks for us soon :)

Liam really feel for you guys. What I don’t understand is how can the banks justify you paying the mortgage in full. They approved the mortgage – where is their share of the blame? I hope something satisfactory gets sorted soon, it isn’t right and it isn’t good for your health

I agree Frank. The planning office and the personnel who are in place to ensure that properties are developed to the correct standard ought to be fired and lawsuits brought against their offices by the ex-residents. It was a total failure of duty.

As I’ve said before, Dublin City Council are an embarrassment to this country. The crazy decisions made by them have cost the taxpayer incredible amounts of money. Using even more taxpayers money, trying to wriggle out of responsibility for Priory Hall speaks volumes about the mindset of these people. They should be disbanded immediately, and a full scale independent investigation into all decisions made by them, should be set up with the full powers of the courts behind it.

Truth be known.
Everything built in the boom is a Priory Hall.

John
Over my lifetime I have bought eight houses at various times with three of those being new and two off plans. In each and every case the builder or seller only received monies after my engineer or architect had inspected the building and provided a certificate of completion and a statement that the structure complied with the Planning permission and all the relevant standards. If anything was amiss I wouldn’t have been paying. What did the purchasers of Priory Hall do in this regard?

Garry – that was my point, the purchaser has to take some responsibility for a small portion in these situations. Its part of the risk we must all take. Priory hall residents have more then payed their dues. What really unsettles me is that I feel the poor progress here is deliberate, if anything happens in favour of these residents it will open up the flood gates for all the other mortgage holders of negative equity worthless hell holes that sprung up across the country in the last decade to the benefit of a small number of developers

Garry, I bought an apartment in Priory hall, off the plans, as did most of the owners. Initially it was our dream home, great location, amenities, and very spacious. We moved in to our new home and honestly, we felt our lives couldn’t be better, our foot on the ladder. Both myself and my partner have worked from a very young age, we have two children, we both still work full time, we struggled to get a mortgage for Priory hall, we saved and saved and got our mortgage. For nearly four years we never once missed our mortgage of 1583 euro a month. We are now still expected to pay that amount every month for an apartment we can’t live in.
Garry, you say you’ve bought eight houses over your life time, imagine you where told your latest house is uninhabitable? And you’d invested four years into it.

Garry, I bought an apartment in Priory hall, off the plans, as did most of the owners. Initially it was our dream home, great location, amenities, and very spacious. We moved in to our new home and honestly, we felt our lives couldn’t be better, our foot on the ladder. Both myself and my partner have worked from a very young age, we have two children, we both still work full time, we struggled to get a mortgage for Priory hall, we saved and saved and got our mortgage. For nearly four years we never once missed our mortgage of 1583 euro a month. We are now still expected to pay that amount every month for an apartment we can’t live in.
Garry, you say you’ve bought eight houses over your life time, imagine you where told your latest house is uninhabitable? And you’d invested four years into it.

So if it turned out your home, which you payed for was an uninhabitable death trap you wouldn’t expect any help from the state, which granted the planning application for it

As I understand it there was nothing wrong with the planning application, it simply wasn’t adhered to by the builder, and certificates of compliance issued on the work by a non government entity without the work being checked. I’m not against the government paying compensation I just can’t see in any of this where the Government was responsible for happened.

Because Enda is poncing around the Globe telling anyone who’ll listen what a great place Ireland is. Tell that to the Priory Hall residents.

@Phil,it has everything to do with the government., they made money out of prioryhall too aswell as everyone else.The government make money on all new properties.If it happened to you I don’t think you would be saying that.Prioryhall residents want justice, we didn’t build the apartments so why should we take any blame ? We just wanted a home to live instead we got a fire trap, The builder got away with it, do you think thats fair?