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
Mr. Paul Benson:
No. Nothing has been agreed on it. A scheme is to be introduced. The legislation will provide for that. What is being worked on at the moment with Donegal County Council is that we will run a pilot. The council has about 30 or 40 vacant houses. It will run a pilot with one of the local approved housing bodies in Donegal to see what exactly are the administration, governance, and technical issues arising with regard to the local authority remediating its own stock. There are more than 1,000 of them and it is a huge undertaking. It is almost on the scale of the Ballymun regeneration project. That is the kind of scale we are talking about. It needs to be right and the only way to find out what the issues are, and to have answers for them when we roll out the full scheme, is to run the pilot. The work is starting on that.
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