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
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Having listened to the whole exchange today, I think about the ordinary person at home. Whether affected by defective blocks or not, taxpayers are currently in circumstances in which what the Government calls a multibillion-euro redress scheme, the biggest in the history of the State, is based on a standard that was a desktop study. There is eminent scientific evidence emerging that it needs to be reviewed urgently. Could Mr. Owens elaborate on that?