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)

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand that and we have gone over that.

I want to move on a bit. Something else does not add up either. Why has the Department removed the science and testing by the chartered engineers registered under the IS 465 standard report and the recommendations of option 1 from the new scheme? Why was the homeowner's engineer with building condition assessment replaced? Why replace the scientific results with the damage threshold? I would have thought the Department would err on the side of caution at least, but it seems the homeowners' engineers have been taken out of that. Will the officials explain the reasoning behind that?

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