Homeowners in Waterford face €15k bills for fire safety works

Thirty homeowners in a Co Waterford housing estate are facing bills of up to €15,000 each for remedial work to make their homes safe after major fire deficiencies were uncovered.

The Ceol Na Mara estate in the village of Kill was completed in 2008 and is now the latest in a growing list of developments where potentially lethal fire safety defects have been uncovered.

There are 54 homes in the timber-frame development, but 24 of those, which are owned by Waterford County Council and the housing agency Respond, are having the remedial work completed. The local authority confirmed to the Irish Examiner that it has no provision for financial aid for the private owners in making their homes safe.