Social housing, investor properties to be excluded from redress scheme

A working group on how to recompense apartment owners for the defects is expected to issue its report in June, but it has now emerged that only owner-occupiers, believed to represent around one-fifth of all apartment owners affected, will be covered by the scheme. File picture
Social housing and apartments owned by investors are to be excluded from a redress scheme for fire safety and structural defects in Celtic Tiger apartments, the
has learned.A working group on how to recompense apartment owners for the defects is expected to issue its report in June, but it has now emerged that only owner-occupiers, believed to represent around one-fifth of all apartment owners affected, will be covered by the scheme.