Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

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

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Derek Rafferty:

I appreciate the Deputy has not been here for all of this. I have gone over this a couple of times, but I will say it again. I stand over what is written, which is that the grant amount covers 100% of work required to remediate a home. The next bit states it is up to a maximum grant amount of €420,000. It is then subject to the rates applicable for the payment of the grant. Those rates are set on the basis of an expert report from an expert group led by Paul Forde and informed by the SCSI as the correct rate as to the cost of rebuilding a home. It takes a number of factors into account.

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