Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Feargal ? Coigligh:

I thank the Deputy. One of the principles of the operation of the scheme is that there needs to be demonstration of damage. We know that pyrite may be present but may not actually cause damage. When the scheme comes to its natural end, we will need to consider some kind of residual process to deal with cases that may arise into the future. That is certainly very much on our plans to do that. That is part of the wind down. That will probably take a year or two before we arrive on a particular approach. However, it will also be part of the overall development of our policy in this area with regard to defective concrete blocks, DCB, and also apartment defects as to how we deal with all these issues in the long term. That is definitely on our radar, however.