Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputies Nash and Boyd Barrett for bringing those matters forward. The State will have to respond to the issues that have been identified in the report, just as we have played a significant role in trying to help those families that have been afflicted by the awful consequences of mica being present in their homes. However, the Government has not yet decided how we will do that. At this point I cannot give Deputy Nash an indication on when that will be concluded but I know work is under way on it. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has a working group in place that is evaluating and teasing out the recommendations he has received and my Department is present in that working group.

I am pretty sure that the Minister only met some of the groups that are involved in this in the past week or two weeks and he updated them on the work. I see that the Deputy is nodding so I think I have got that right.