Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion

Mr. Conor O'Donnell:

It is for the new scheme. There is no testing. It is a desktop study, basically. If you meet the damage threshold, you are pushed forward by the council to the Housing Agency. It looks at it to determine whether you hit the damage threshold. If you do, then it will send testing but that is it. If you build your house and you get option 2, 3 or 4, for instance, and you keep your blocks - you replace the outer leaf, keeping the inner leaf - no engineer will sign off on that.

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