Burning issue: What now for homes built with dangerous fire safety deficiencies?

There has been major focus on remediation schemes for homes damaged by mica and pyrite recently, but those whose homes are considered dangerous through fire safety deficiencies are still waiting for any sort of resolution, writes Mick Clifford

The scene of a fire which destroyed six houses in the Millford Manor Estate, Newbridge, Co Kildare in less than half an hour. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

There has been major focus on remediation schemes for homes damaged by mica and pyrite recently, but those whose homes are considered dangerous through fire safety deficiencies are still waiting for any sort of resolution, writes Michael Clifford.

FRANCES McNamara was having a lie down after work when her daughter Morgan woke her to say there was a fire in the estate. It was the afternoon of March 31, 2015. Across the green from the home which mother and daughter shared in Millfield Manor, a development of around 80 timber-frame houses in Newbridge, the blaze was rapidly spreading.