Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency
9:00 am
Mr. John O'Connor:
North Dublin and County Meath are the areas most affected. I will explain the difference in pyrite between north Dublin and County Meath and counties Donegal and Mayo. In north Dublin and County Meath the pyrite is the stone underneath the ground floor slabs in houses and expands. The problem is confined because, as the Chairman said, of the stone supplied. It is a problem with the blocks used to build houses in counties Donegal and Mayo. It is a different problem. What is called pyritic heave is primarily a problem in north Dublin and County Meath.
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