Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
This may have been covered earlier. The representative from Engineers Ireland and Paul Forde mentioned the difficulties they have getting professional indemnity insurance. They mentioned that there were only two companies in the country getting professional indemnity insurance for pyrite. I may have taken them up wrong, but that was more or less the gist of what they were saying. This question may be for Mr. Jordan. Has the Housing Agency factored that in when building the panel? Are we discussing a scheme that may not work or will not get off the ground because of a lack of any professional indemnity insurance? I suspect that position could be exacerbated by the issue with foundations and the delay in the foundation work.
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