Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael McGarvey:

In Donegal alone, 1,240 payments have been made in the form of various ancillary grants, remediation works, etc. People can submit regular claims, for example, for accommodation works and storage works. We listen to homeowners because they give us some very good, and very obvious, ideas. There was a point where a homeowner could only submit one ancillary claim at a time. We changed that in the past three weeks to make the claims process a bit easier for people in terms of cash flow, etc.