What about old Bernie Laporte
Tis all crystal clear now why RWC didnāt go to Ireland in 2023.
The usual suspects owe Philip Browne an apology
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Yep, the welsh and scots shafted us
Because the irfu and their consultants submitted nothing on keeping crowds safe. No terrorism here they said, job done.
Course it was lads
A nods as good as a wink aye
Darragh OāBrien has made the bold step, for a FFer, to award the redress money in the apartment pyrite scheme to the developers in ordervyo complete the work.
Pity the gimp didnāt think of the same for the houses in estates. Some amount of bureaucracy and paperwork that would have been unnecessary, not to mention the chance of lower costs.
Maybe if he thinks thereāll be more photo ops and the chance of giving his developer mates a leg up heāll revisit this.
Donegal votes donāt matter
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Ye want a blank cheque instead? 
A county of bandits and pyrates.
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Did you even read my post?
I literally said it would have been better just get the developers to rebuild the dwellings, like theyāre doing in Dublin.
No one is looking for a blank cheque, just the negligence addressed and the houses to be made safe for living.
DOB, by dragging his feet and not recognising the guidance from international experts that his legislation is seriously inadequate, is going to end up costing the state billions.
Thereās an opportunity to complete remediation on houses with less damage that would only involve doing the outer leaf and potentially refilling the foundation bit by bit by injecting it. This process would mean no moving out of homes and less concrete required abd hence, much lower costs.
Instead the damage is being left to fester and thr condition of the houses will get so bad that complete rebuilds will be the only solution.
Youād almost admire the neck of the fuckers.
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Darragh has done a great thing here mate, dont begrudge the apartment owners
so this is costing us the taxpayers 5bn (which could have been spent elsewhere) & its a great thing that is been done, the response from the Donegal mansion owners, ātoo much paperworkā - why would anyone go into Politics
The government is expected to approve a scheme to repair Celtic Tiger apartment defects which could cost the State up to ā¬2.5 billion.
Housing Minister Darragh OāBrien is bringing the memo to Cabinet, which will cover fire, structural safety and water-caused defects on apartment buildings and duplexes built between 1991 and 2013.
Itās expected somewhere between 62,500 and 100,000 housing units are affected and the average cost of remediation will be around ā¬25,000.
This leaves a potential cost to the State of between ā¬1.56 billion and ā¬2.5 billion.
The scheme is likely to be administered by the Housing Agency, with Ownersā Management Agencies funded to carry out the repair works to entire buildings.
The scheme will be done on a 100% basis, with all the costs met by the State.
This new programme, combined with the Mica and pyrite scheme previously revealed to be costing ā¬2.7 billion, means the State, and taxpayers, will end up paying more than ā¬5 billion to fix building defects mostly from the Celtic Tiger.
Am I right in saying theyāre giving the cunts who didnāt build them right the first time billons to rebuild/fix them now.
Taxpayers in shoeboxes in Dublin paying for McMansions to be rebuilt?
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How much of this is being recovered from developers?
Zero
thats a question for the AG
We canāt recover the money because it was LiamCarroll Ltd that built those apartments, thatās gone bust. However CarrollLiam Ltd are the best company to rectify this and theyāll only charge us 2.5bn.
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No. The builders arenāt/werenāt at fault, it was the negligence of the quarry owners that was allowed to go unchecked that led to the issue.
Iām not. I said itās a pity he didnt opt to do the same with housing estates.
& the one off mansions?