Mr. Aidan O'Connell:

I have personally involved with a number of cases in the south east of Ireland and at least two of those have been with the same supplier. With one of the properties, the homeowner was forced, or encouraged, to sign a non-disclosure agreement prior to receiving a cash payment to repair the property. I am not covered by that non-disclosure agreement so I do not have any difficulty in identifying the quarry in future but not in this forum. I also have other cases, with houses built in recent years, and they are demonstrating damage with the same material present in both those properties. That is in County Wexford. I also have cases in County Carlow where similar practices have happened. I have had phone calls from one or two Deputies asking if I know of problematic quarries in this area because they have seen properties with cracking, etc. They wanted to know if particular quarries were supplying materials.