Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If Ms Timmons could do that, it would be great. Our collective aim is to make this scheme the best it can be. Regarding the damage threshold, how can we avoid families having to live in a purgatory awaiting for the damage to be sufficient? Pyrite is a terminal condition. It does not get better. The witnesses from Engineers Ireland said there would be different thresholds in different counties. Nobody is ever going to say he or she has pyrite if he or she does not have it. There is solidarity among homeowners in terms of the most damaged houses being done first. I have no concern that this would not hold throughout the scheme. Can we look at a way that ensures we are not in the same situation we were last year in Mayo? We spoke about being concerned about the mental health of and the stress being caused to homeowners. Good God almighty, stress was placed upon homeowners when they were refused permission to take part in the scheme but can we look at that to ensure that the thresholds do not exclude families and families do not have to sit there and wait for their houses to get worse and worse knowing they will never get better? We really have to look at that.