Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

I want to talk to the Minister about the defective concrete block legislation once again. We have been back for three weeks. Each week I look at the programme for the week and each week my colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn, the Sinn Féin Whip, asks for the legislation to come before us here, to the House, to be able to be dealt with.

We are in a situation where homeowners are still waiting for the updated grant rates and the increased timeframe for completion to be applicable retrospectively to all applicants. It is not acceptable. We showed them in June. We said exactly what needed to be done to bring this legislation to the floor of the Dáil. Homeowners are stuck in this limbo where they cannot get the increased rates.

I hope the Whip behind the Minister has some answers on this, maybe that it will come, but we absolutely need this to be brought to the floor. We in the Opposition, and this goes across all Opposition parties, will move heaven and earth, once it comes onto the floor of the Dáil to make sure that it goes through quickly.

We have waited far too long for this legislation.

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