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

Mr. Aidan O'Connell:

Many thanks for that. At the time we examined the issue in Donegal and Mayo, it was initially identified as being a mica issue primarily in Donegal and a pyrite issue in Mayo. I have looked at a large number of the properties in Donegal and Mayo. Pyrrhotite in itself was not being identified as a problem. Currently, pyrrhotite is not identified as being a causation of the problem. It has been identified as being present. I caution the Deputy or anyone else against saying that the automatic presence of pyrrhotite or any other type of material is necessarily a cause for alarm.