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 know, but Mr. Rafferty is talking about expediency and making it efficient. We are building all these houses and we do not have the homeowners' engineer and we have taken the science out of it. We are not going to get a review of this until 2025 and by the time the changes are made, we could be at the end of that year or into 2026. What happens if all the homes that are being rebuilt right now, especially the ones where people could not afford to have the foundations tested, are found to have deleterious material in their foundations? Are we spending millions of euro on an asset that is not going to be worth anything and will have to be knocked down again or maybe is just not insurable or mortgageable? We had a whole discussion on the latter aspect last week.

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