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

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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A conservative approach would be option one, which is demolition and rebuild. At the minute, demolition is demolition down to the foundations, and the foundations are left in. As a senior engineer in this country, if it were his house, and if he were approved for option one, demolition, would he leave the foundations in, wearing his engineer's hat? Would he build on the foundations?