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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This is what I am hearing back home. They want this really simplified. I am outlining a scenario here where Engineers Ireland has certified the work. The remediation work was on outer leaf because that was all that was appropriate, although maybe another engineer was overruled on that. It was on the outer leaf, the certification is there but it is not a certification for the entire building. The structural soundness of the entire building has not been certified. It is just the work under the Housing Agency scheme. Will a bank lend to somebody to purchase that property on the same commercial terms as an unaffected house?