Catherine Martin raises issue of ‘inept, incompetent, greed-driven building standards’

… Green Party deputy leader Catherine Martin raised the issue of families whose “dream homes” were defectively built by “inept, incompetent, greed-driven building standards that were not properly regulated by the State”.

The latest reported incidence of defects has been reported at an apartment block in the Beacon South Quarter in Sandyford, in Ms Martin’s Dublin Rathdown constituency. “There is a duty on Government to protect its people against incompetent rogue cowboy builders,” she said. …