Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a question for her on the insurance aspect of this. At present, some homeowners cannot get their homes insured despite the fact deleterious material is not a peril under the insurance, so they would not be able to claim anyway. Maybe Ms Murdock can explain why that is and why insurance companies are now only providing contents-only insurance for some affected houses. In the context of what we have just heard from Engineers Ireland and the BPFI, will Insurance Ireland members be willing to insure the house fully on the same commercial terms as an unaffected houses on the basis of a remediation certification that is not for the entire house? That would include, for example, inner walls having deleterious material that could potentially affect the fire resistance. That would be in the context of party walls and issues like that.

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