Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a point about the overall picture on pyrite because we are dealing here with the private sector. When we look at local authorities and the amount of pyrite we are experiencing, I fear we have another problem having looked at an estate the other day. I first I encountered this going back to 2006 and 2007 at Avila Park in Finglas. I knew there was something very serious albeit I did not know it was pyrite. I got engineers out and it took us two years to figure out what it was. The true figures are staggering when one takes the public and private estates into account. I do not think we have done a full audit to determine how serious this is and the potential for further issues. As Deputy Coppinger said, there are some houses which have a certain amount of pyrite but that could activate further down the road. The potential is still there. To ignore those and just walk away from people in a different category because it is currently less serious will be done at our peril. Those people may face serious problems down the road. We have to look at that more carefully and not just dismiss people where one category is more serious than the other. We must tackle both categories.