Dáil debates

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Other Questions

Pyrite Remediation Programme

4:15 pm

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister of State has said, money is not the problem and no one is asking him to spend money that does not need to be spent. The reality is there are properties which are not being remediated. Perhaps they do not need to be remediated, but if they do not then those people must have access to a green certificate which states an end point has been reached and the property is fit for resale.

The Minister of State has said there is no closure. There certainly is not for these people because while this process continues they cannot move on. They are stuck in a grey area. I know many of them are in the Minister of State's constituency. We need an urgent review of this category. We need to go back to the pyrite panel report. It was not as prescriptive as the board is now interpreting it. It means the grey area category in the middle is bigger than it needs to be. I am arguing that greater flexibility be allowed by the standard set in the scheme then is actually being interpreted. As there is a of a stand-off now and nobody with a damage condition rating of 2 is included, then for this logjam to be shifted the Department needs to step in and argue for what I would say is a bit of common sense and look at properties with a damage condition rating of 1 with progression.

In Lusk there is a cul-de-sac with nine properties where one property is looking for inclusion as it would complete the entire cul-de-sac, but it is not being remediating it in the same phase as the other houses. It will be done five phases later. This means remediation work will happen on the road twice. It is ridiculous.

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