Apartment firm sues over bill for €3.5m fire safety works

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

An application to have the case fast-tracked has been adjourned to facilitate efforts to resolve matters, the Commercial Court heard.

More than 600 residents of the 298 apartments at Longboat Quay are affected by fire safety notices which empower Dublin Fore Brigade to evacuate the complex should it consider that necessary. The complex was developed in 2006 by Gendsong Ltd, a company of developer Bernard McNamara, which later went into receivership. Among the management company’s claims is that the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) was obliged, under a December 2004 agreement, to ensure works at the complex were completed in a manner leaving it reasonably fit for immediate occupation. It is alleged the DDDA failed to do that.