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

We are resourcing the Housing Agency. There is a specific senior programme manager in place in the agency who is managing the applications. We have worked very closely with the OMCs on the applications, being able to seek the correct information and working that through. That is why the pathfinder schemes are so important. We receive applications every single day of the week and continue to have webinars with residents, OMCs and managing agents. I have also engaged with Insurance Ireland and the BFI on this to keep insurers abreast of what is happening.

We did consider tagging onto the Pyrite Resolution Board. I did meet representatives of the board on this. Residents themselves and representative groups rejected the suggestion from Sinn Féin, which was constructive, that there would be an add-on to the pyrite remediation scheme. Everyone agreed that we needed a specific scheme for apartment defects and specific legislation.

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