Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion
1:30 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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He heads up Engineers Ireland. He has that position. Where there is a recommendation for an outer leaf replacement, which means that the outer walls are replaced because there are deleterious materials, and a recommendation that the inner leaf and the foundations are sound, despite growing evidence that this is not the case, can Mr. Owens tell the committee he is 100% sure that those properties, after only the outer leaf being remediated, are structurally sound?