Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion

Dr. Martina Cleary:

My understanding from reading the expert group report is that it is two citations, which are a book and a journal that are out of date and off topic. There is also no longitudinal study as to what exactly is the work, which is not quantified, that Mayo County Council has done for establishing the whole change of a damage threshold. It returns to the lack of research substantiating any of these positions.