Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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It is a very significant issue and it needs to be in this scheme. I ask the Department to please look into this.

Many people in Mayo are concerned that the thresholds will exclude some people from the scheme. There is a visual impact to this. People will have to sit and wait and watch their homes while they further deteriorate, knowing that they are going to have to rebuild them at some stage. Will they be excluded because of the damage threshold? Will people in Mayo who have pyrite be excluded because obviously such cases demand a complete rebuild? Will they be excluded from the scheme at this point?