Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If a house does not need to be fixed, it would be utterly ridiculous to fix it. No one is proposing that. However, if a property has pyrite, there has to be a system where, it having been studied after another period of time and demonstrated that the damage has not progressed, one could say the level of pyrite has already oxidised and will not develop further or is of such a low level as to be insignificant, meaning that a house could be declared, in essence, pyrite-free. Without the certificate, the only other remedy would be an actual remediation of the property. Those are the only two options. The problem is that we have a remediation scheme that is too restrictive. A house has to be virtually falling down before a person can get onto the scheme. However, on the comfort on the other end if one does not qualify, one cannot get out of jail either. This needs to be built into the scheme. Interestingly, one of the objections raised when I moved the Bill was that there is no definition of a green certificate.

They could not tell me how it is defined even though it is a term used broadly in the industry and we all know what it should be. I will sit down with the Minister of State. I hope he is still here to do that. I do not mean it in a derogatory way but it is very unfortunate that a lot of these key issues will be subsumed by the internal battles in Fine Gael. I hope we can sit down and address it.

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