Independent Working Group to Examine Defective Housing
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage 16/02/21 – Minister O’Brien establishes Independent Working Group to examine defective housing
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage 21/01/21 – Minister O’Brien appoints Mr Seamus Neely to Chair Independent Working Group on Defective Housing
Redress Scheme for Defective Properties
Have you signed the petition hosted on the Uplift campaign site- click here?
This calls on Government to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas Housing Committee All-Party “Safe as Houses?” report, including a redress scheme for homes affected by fire and other life safety construction defects.
Presentations on defects were delivered to our open meeting of 25 September 2018. More information, including slides, is available for download by clicking here.
Information and presentations on fire safety are available on our Fire Safety page.
SCSI Submission -Defects in our Built Environment
Latent Defects Redress Bill 2020
Latent Defects Redress Bill 2019 Dáil debate – First Stage and copy of the Bill.
Main Political Parties’ GE2020 Manifesto Extracts on MUDs & Defects
How to Deal with Building Defects – Proposals prepared by the Construction Defects Alliance and the Apartment Owners’ Network
Merrion Press – Defects, Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger – Eoin Ó Broin T.D.
Eventbrite.com 26/08/21 – Book Launch 8 September 2021: “Defects” Living with the legacy of the Celtic Tiger
The Irish Times 04/09/21 – Defects: The problems of developer-led construction in Ireland (subscriber access)
The Irish Times 08/09/21 – Inside Politics – The legacy of ‘Celtic Tiger’ housing – with Eoin Ó Broin (Podcast)
Sinn Féin YouTube Channel 08/09/21 – Launch Webinar – Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger
The Stand with Eamon Dunphy 13/09/21 – Epp 1199: Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin Undaunted by the Challenge of our Housing Crisis
Defective Dwellings Bill 2021 and copy of the Bill
