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

Photo of Pádraig Mac LochlainnPádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The NSAI is undertaking a review. We were told earlier by Engineers Ireland it would be part of that because it has been asked to assess it. Mr. Benson has confirmed, which is alarming, that the NSAI review could be late next year. The IS 465 underpins the existing grant scheme and this new updated scheme. Under IS 465, we redress families to the tune of billions of euro.

This will be big stuff when the review is done. Part of that review is to look at the foundations and deleterious materials. It has been suggested that those tests of foundations are under way. Does Mr. Espey know when testing in Donegal will begin?

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