Mr. Paul Forde:

I will add to Mr. O'Connell's comments, albeit in the reverse order. I am not sure if there is a bit of a lack of definition between what I was saying and what the Deputy asks. When the pyrite problem first occurred in Dublin, we heard much talk of pyrite in foundations but there was no pyrite in foundations. There was pyrite in stone underneath the floor slab but that seemed to be mixed up with what Mr. O'Connell and I, along with other engineers, would call the reinforced or in situconcrete foundation. We did not come across pyrite in foundations.

The Deputy mentions the blockwork in above-ground walls having pyrite and blockwork in foundations having pyrite. We call the blockwork mentioned as part of foundations, if I understand the Deputy correctly, the rising walls. They would also be blockwork built off the in situpoured concrete foundation. There is the in situ poured concrete foundation and the rising wall built in blockwork up to ground level. There is also blockwork above ground level.