Protecting home buyers: About time

The call from an Oireachtas committee yesterday for higher building standards and stronger safeguards for homeowners and tenants who experience defects in their homes is very welcome. The committee wants a more robust approach to building standards to better protect consumers.

This proposal is justified by the litany of stories about homeowners or tenants forced to quit their homes because of neglectful — “cowboy” might be a better term — builders.