Longboat Quay: Apartment owners may have to pay millions for remedial fire safety work

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

On August 14, Dublin Fire Brigade wrote to representatives of the Longboat Quay development threatening to have the building evacuated unless a date to begin the work was agreed within two weeks. The Irish Examiner understands funding has yet to be secured for the works.

Longboat Quay, which was built in 2006, is a 298-unit development of privately owned apartments on Sir John Rogerson Quay, for which the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) is nominal landlord.