Mick Clifford: Have we learned nothing from Ireland’s long and costly building disasters?

Proposed amendments to housing law are being rushed through the Oireachtas, raising fears of loopholes, abuse and future legal fallout

New laws, and literally billions of euro, are required to make good on the shortcomings of building regulations in the past.

Have we learned nothing? Last week in the Dáil, there was an attempt to ram through a new law with the minimum of scrutiny.

That the subject matter involved building regulations should immediately raise a red flag.