I can’t understand why a deficiency in building regs/fire safety etc was not picked up at the conveyancy or building survey stage?

Hogan is a wimp these should sit outside the dail until they get a new house to live in

This is bloody disgraceful, out of their homes for five months!!!! Someone needs to get the finger out, they should be outside the dail, they will be forgotten if they don’t keep up the momentum! I really feel for them, your home is your haven.

I’ve been following this story from overseas. I am at a loss for words: Why hasn’t this been resolved yet? The slow action on justice reflects shamefully on the higher-ups. These people need their lives back.

I watched that building go up. it was a bloody disgrace how they got to sell them. the scaffolding was mismatch the safety for the workers was not there. and no I didn’t work on them.ultimately the goverment is responsible. they allow self build regulations. now pay the price of your incompetent attitude to home owners. pay to rehouse these honest people who bought their homes in good faith.

100% agree he should be sacked

It is so desperately unfair. Why are there no sackings or resignations on this . Heads should roll.

Another speculator off the hook at the expense of misfortunate residents .people directly affected by these actions similar To Vita Cortex should have first call on financial settlement before banks.The law should be changed to make this possible .

Caveat emptor

“Buyer Beware’

Look the system of self regulation doesn’t work. Peoples lived are at stake here literally. I wonder what work civil servants actually perform when I read articles like this. The residents should take a case against the local authority for negligence. I also think we should follow the same processes as the uk where building inspectors turn up randomly during the build and can halt the process then and there if needs be. Also from a social perspective we need a social living grade system so living conditions in apartments are not too cramped. For example an apartment is a grade 3 so can house 3 people – bedrooms and shared space lounge etc would need to be a minimium size.

This is a farce ,where is homebond ,where are the insurers , where is the surveyer that the passed the apartment.
It seems the only people that are protected in all this process are the bankers who lent the money, wonder why that is !

I really feel for these people. How the government can fund banks that are paying billions to unsecured bond holders and let this drag on is beyond me. I’d gladly pay more tax if I knew it was going to a worthy cause like getting these people into the homes they paid for.

700.000euro so far to house the tenants. what repair work would this have paid for.dcc deserve to lose this case on so many levels. do the right thing and give the people their homes back in a safe repaired state. wonder how much it cost to build them in the first place.

I couldn’t, in good faith, pay another red cent of that mortgage. The properties are totally worthless now and in terms of ‘merchantable quality’ were never fit for purpose. The serious financial stress of walking away from it, has to be less than the stress of trying to keep it. I feel for these people, refugees in their own land, while still paying for a home they’ll never have peace of mind in.