Two more reports have thrown into doubt claims by central and local government that lands in the south-east corner of Dublin can be used in the speedy delivery of new homes to soothe the national housing crisis.

Two more reports highlighting the potential risks of methane gas emissions and industrial pollutants on lands meant for 3,000 homes in the Dublin Docklands area, raise more questions about the potential costs and speed of building a project aimed at addressing the housing crisis.

Poolbeg Peninsula and the lure of its vacant lands has rarely been out of the news headlines. 

The developer of Longboat Quay, Bernard McNamara, is in negotiations to complete the fire safety work required at the development using public money.

It looks like Bernard McNamara, the man who built Longboat Quay, will get the job of sorting out its fire safety deficiencies without residents having to foot the bill, says Michael Clifford

While Bernard McNamara’s offer to do remedial work at the Longboat Quay complex at cost price would save residents financial pain, questions arise as to how the work could be done at this rate and if the recommended works would be completed in full, writes Michael Clifford

Nama is to build 20,000 homes and provide new office space as part of a €5.6bn Dublin Docklands project.

The Tánaiste says the controversial Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) will be wound up before Christmas.

The Longboat Quay Management Company has initiated legal proceedings over liability for funding €3.5m fire safety works at the Dublin apartment complex.

Mooted Government plans for a national audit of all buildings and apartments constructed during the boom are likely to be rejected over concerns it will be too expensive and cause too much disruption for people living in or using the sites.

An internal Dublin Fire Brigade report recommended the serving of a fire notice on Longboat Quay in May of last year, the Irish Examiner has learned.

It was on one level somewhat appropriate that Environment Minister Alan Kelly was absent when the issue of the deplorable state of affairs surrounding the 900 residents who occupy 298 apartments in the Longboat Quay development was raised in the Dáil.

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Residents of Longboat Quay have rejected as “wholly unacceptable” an offer from the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) to contribute towards the cost of remedial works in their building.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Pressure is mounting on Dublin City Council to foot the €4m bill for fire safety remedial works in the 299-apartment complex Longboat Quay.

Owners in a controversial apartment block were told last night they have to come up with €4m in less than a week or Dublin Fire Brigade will move to have the building evacuated.

More than 600 people will be forced to leave their homes in Dublin unless remedial fire safety work is carried out immediately.

Priory Hall hangs like an impending nightmare over local authorities around the country, writes Michael Clifford

The replica Jeanie Johnson famine ship, which cost the taxpayer €14m, is now valued at a paltry €150,000, with the visitor attraction haemorrhaging money on an annual basis.

Taxpayers have paid out €1m to cover the initial cost of ensuring the safety of residents in the Longboat Quay apartment block which was found to be a firetrap last year, the Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.

Public money is to be the main source of funding for the repair and upgrade work to be undertaken on the privately owned Longboat Quay apartment blocks, which were found to be a firetrap last year.

A range of questions were submitted to the PR representative for the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

Owen Keegan needed this like a hole in the head last June. The Dublin City manager was already in the wars over Garth Brooks, then he heard he potentially had on his hands another Priory Hall.

Questions put to the Dublin Fire Brigade:

Unlike Tom McFeeley, who developed Priory Hall, Bernard McNamara was a pillar of the establishment.

Fire safety issues are not the only problem that residents have encountered at Longboat Quay.

The evacuation of residents in more than 200 flats in a prestigious Dublin development was considered after the discovery of major construction flaws that rendered the buildings firetraps.

A potential fire trap apartment block in Dublin has been patrolled 24/7 by fire marshals for over six months following the discovery of a major flaw in the alarm system, according to the building’s management company.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will call the Dublin Docklands Development Authority before it in the coming weeks to ask it about its sale of a site to U2.

Plans are underway to open a new park at Grand Canal Dock next year.

Over €185m of taxpayers’ money was “poured down the drain” in property speculation by a quango, TDs have heard.

Establishing an entity intended to be as transformative as Irish Water was always going to be expensive.

The former chief executive of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has launched a strong attack on its former chairwoman Niamh Brennan, saying he “watched aghast” as Ms Brennan issued a number of reports without the participants being able to defend themselves.

The landmark CHQ building in the IFSC was sold by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority yesterday as it was revealed that over €100m of commercial property has changed hands in Ireland each month so far this year.

Former Dublin Docklands Development Authority chairman Lar Bradshaw has said that the taxpayer did not lose any money in the controversial purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend seven years ago, but has expressed regret that the authority went through with the deal.

The former administrator of the so-called Siptu slush fund has said he cannot appear at a public inquiry into its spending until a fraud investigation is completed.

Former Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) board members, Seanie Fitzpatrick, Lar Bradshaw and Paul Moloney will be called before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to explain their role in the controversial €412m Irish Glass Bottle (IGB) site debacle.