No one seems accountable for defects in our buildings

How did we arrive at a state of affairs where people can spend hundreds of thousands of euro buying recently built apartments in Dublin and elsewhere, and then find that these properties, which allegedly met the necessary building standards and regulations, are not fit for purpose?

Worse still, not only are they not fit for purpose, they are potential death traps.

A normal ethical person would assume that these folk would have been given options of temporary accommodation and to have the properties remediated, or have their purchase money, legal costs and outlays refunded.