Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----greatly improve the situation and provide 100% redress for people. I will not go over the other points raised. I have already put on the record many of the different changes. Voting against the legislation means there is no new scheme in place and it is further delaying the remediation and replacement of people's homes and enabling them to be able to see a future and some light at the end of the tunnel. To be clear, it is voting this down after all the consultations right through the process since June 2020. In fairness to Deputy Pringle he has engaged in this and has acknowledged there are vast improvements on the previous scheme. This scheme absolutely will work for people. It is, of course, any Deputy's right to have a view on it but the reality is that if this legislation were voted down this week and next week, we would be left with the existing scheme that was launched in January 2020.

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