Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

-----but if he were, and a bunch of foxes broke into his henhouse and created mayhem and havoc, would he round up the same foxes to go back to repair the damage they did? It is quite ludicrous. The question is who will pay for the pyrite scandal and the remediation of the homes affected. I say all those who had their snouts in the property bubble trough must pay. These are the big builders, the big bankers, the insurance companies and the quarry owners. However, they will now start a process which could go on for years of trying to evade responsibility and paying up. Home owners cannot wait and put their lives on hold while these corporate entities slug it out. We need a public fund immediately. We can put this public fund in place and take civil engineers and construction workers off the dole and put them on a publicly funded scheme to remediate all the homes, and in the meantime begin to take massive levies from these people. We cannot leave home owners waiting for these issues to be decided by these entities. Those leaving the House today must have certainty, a time limit and a schedule of when the work will be carried out. Nothing less is agreeable to us.

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