Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Defective Block Redress: Redress Focus Group for Banking and Insurance

Ms Donna McDade:

We are in the process of doing that as well. We were advised to do it through the one-stop shop. There are outlays that you have to accrue before you get anything back. I had to pay €500 to try to get a building energy rating, BER on a property that no longer exists, which is quite a complicated process, and then pay €2,200 just to get onto that one-stop shop. That is the guts of €3,000 for which I am out of pocket on top of everything else that we are out of pocket for. Add that on to my €66,000 and I am already out. I am just shy of €70,000 into this so far.