Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme.

11:30 am

Ms Sarah Neary:

On the building regulations, pyrite is an example of the defects that occurred during the first decade of the 20th century and only really came to light towards the end of that period. It is a dreadful situation for people to find themselves in having bought, at that time, very expensive houses only to find there was a defect with them. In response to that, a group was set up early in the following decade to identify what the problems were with the system, and-----