Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are keeping all options open on potential legal challenges based on case law before the courts at the moment. The Supreme Court will hear a number of significant cases, hopefully in the near future, which will give us the necessary case law to go on. If there is a legal opening for the State to extract some moneys from the quarrying or insurance sectors, we would certainly be glad to do so in order to get more money into the scheme to remediate the people's houses. This is not a compensation scheme. This is pyrite remediation scheme for the first 1,000 identified in the independent report as being in need of urgent remediation over a two-year period. The Deputy will appreciate it is not easy to get money from the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform during a bailout programme. I thought she might be satisfied that I got money at all to start the scheme.

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