Dublin City Council is considering legal action against Coalport Building Company after a number of families had to be moved out of a building that did not meet fire safety standards.
Residents of another scheme in Dundalk also built by the same developer were served with an evacuation notice by the town council last month over similar safety issues.
Dublin City Council purchased 16 units at Priory Hall in the Northern Fringe for social housing but had to move the families out earlier this month when Coalport failed to comply with a fire safety enforcement notice.
Dublin council official Aidan Fitzsimmons stated in a report that the north and south blocks of Priory Hall are a potentially dangerous building.
‘Since no works have been carried out we are now considering referring the matter to the courts’ he stated in a report to councillors of the North Central area.
Local Labour councillor Sean Kenny said it was deplorable that 16 families, many with children, had to move out of their homes coming up to Christmas because a developer refuses to comply with basic fire regulations.
Dublin City Council is advising that private landlords in the scheme must exercise their own judgement in how to respond to the fire safety notice.
The report states that because the complex is private property the council cannot carry out the works.
