The Irish Times

Ireland is witnessing a "serious depletion" of housing stock and its replacement with a "mish-mash" of apartment buildings, says chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB) in Ireland Dermot Roughan. He asked whether the current apartment-living culture was the best that we could do for our young people. Roughan was speaking last Friday in Dublin at the 25th annual dinner of the Irish branch. He predicted that the "incredible amount of new apartment units being built" would lead to construction disputes that would go to arbitration. Little thought was being given to the future well-being of our housing stock, he said. And he questioned the build quality of some of the apartment developments.