Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion

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

We are asking people to take on the remediation option recommended by engineers working for the Housing Agency, who operate under IS 465, which many Engineers Ireland members believe is not fit for purpose because those engineers are indemnified. Is this not crazy? Basically, intelligent engineers who are indemnified are making recommendations and following the guidelines to the letter even though doing so is madness? Engineers would never take that risk if they were not indemnified. How do we square that circle?

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