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

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
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.