Mr. Se?n McCabe:

There needs to be a very clear appeals process, and we need to have assurances from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that the engineers are fully impartial. It would be very interesting to hear the inner workings of that. The general consensus throughout the county to date and at the minute is that the majority of engineers do not want to stand over anything that was only partially remediated. In fact, that has been my own personal and family experience. I would be very interested to hear how this is going to come about, the inner workings of it, because there is a general concern that people will be coerced into taking a partial remediation. There need to be clear guidelines in place.

I know from reading the regulations, and we have only had a day or so to digest quite a meaty document, that there is an appeals process in place, but they need to be very clear on that and to give the public reassurances around that.