‘Victims of abysmal building’, says High Court judge

Three families were “victims of abysmal building practices” and of massive systemic breaches of building regulations, a High Court judge said yesterday.

Mr Justice Gerard Hogan made the comments when he awarded the families a total of €1.09m over defects in their homes.

He is to send his judgment to Environment Minister Phil Hogan and to the chairman of the Oireachtas Environment Committee so the Government “may give such consideration to the policy issues raised by the judgment as they may consider appropriate”.