Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion
Ms Martina Hegarty:
There is one point I would like to add in relation to cases in Mayo where testing has already commenced and homeowners are awaiting the engineers' report. The scheme that is open at the moment requires a building condition assessment, BCA, to be carried out. We need to know whether the report and the test results that are currently being collected by those engineers are going to stand, or if the homeowners are going to be forced to start the process all over again. That is a significant gap. In relation to the transition, we are waiting on the transition plan from the local authorities and we are hopeful that will come any day now.
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