{"id":198,"date":"2017-06-15T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/london-fire-must-serve-as-wake-up-call-for-irish-fire-safety-authorities\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:00:38","slug":"london-fire-must-serve-as-wake-up-call-for-irish-fire-safety-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/london-fire-must-serve-as-wake-up-call-for-irish-fire-safety-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"London fire must serve as wake-up call for Irish Fire Safety Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The devastating blaze at Grenfell Tower in London must serve as a wake-up call for Irish authorities that are failing to address serious fire safety concerns, <strong>Dublin Bay North Social Democrats Cllr Cian O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> said today.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr O\u2019Callaghan said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince their construction during the boom years it has emerged that <strong>several housing estates in Dublin and wider Leinster, including a number of timber frame developments, fail to meet basic fire safety standards.<\/strong> This raises serious questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why has the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, which has been aware of these fire safety defects for a period of at least 10 years, failed to act?<\/li>\n<li>Why have local Councils declined to use their statutory building control powers to pursue developers who have breached fire safety regulations?<\/li>\n<li>Why has the Government not yet published the review into fire safety and timber frame developments that was commissioned after the rapid spread of the fire at Millfield Manor?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cllr O&#8217;Callaghan added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week\u2019s devastating fire at Grenfell Tower <strong>must serve as a wake-up call for Irish authorities<\/strong> that are failing to address serious fire safety concerns in Ireland. I\u2019m calling for the new Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government Eoghan Murphy TD to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publish the fire safety review arising out of the rapid spread of fire at Millfield Manor.<\/li>\n<li>Establish a Fire Safety remediation scheme similar to the Pyrite Remediation Scheme to assist homeowners.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate the failure of local authorities to utilise their building control powers to pursue developers who constructed homes in breach of the fire safety regulations.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce a system of independent building control inspection to prevent a re-occurrence of this problem in the future.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes for Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On March 31, 2015, a fire spread rapidly destroying a terrace of six houses in half an hour in the Millfield Manor estate. According to design standards, it should take about three hours for a fire to spread that quickly. An investigation was launched by the council which found major fire safety deficiencies.<\/li>\n<li>In September 2015, the Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, announced a review to \u201cdevelop a framework for general application\u201d in homes where concerns had been raised about fire safety.<\/li>\n<li>A full 15 months after the review was completed, the Government has still not published it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>15 June 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devastating blaze at Grenfell Tower in London must serve as a wake-up call for Irish authorities that are failing to address serious fire safety concerns, Dublin Bay North Social Democrats Cllr Cian O\u2019Callaghan said today. 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