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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Review it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----will be reviewed after the 12 months.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We have upped the cap from €247,000 to €420,000. Sinn Féin opposed that. Let us be straight about that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not have a clue what is happening on the ground. If he or his colleague had turned up, they would know that. There were 1,300 people present, some of whom who could not get into the room and were out on the streets. That is what happened. This scheme is not working. We tabled 80 amendments to the Government's legislation to make this scheme work. Ours is 100% redress...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is not working. The Minister needs to get his head out of the sand. It is a simple question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will he provide upfront costs as an immediate measure, which he was asked to do more than six months ago?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. The Minister to respond.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We have a number of staged payments through this scheme. What I was saying was that every scheme evolves, and we have evolved this scheme as it moves through on implementation.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is going backwards.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: The figures show we have 1,970 applications to the new scheme. I have given the Deputy the figures with regard to homes under remediation. I want to see those figures increase. The proposal from the banks about 0% interest finance is with the Department of Finance. By the way, what has also been sought by the banks is a State guarantee on those loans. There can be ways to expedite the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Department of Finance told the Minister six months ago-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Sorry, we will absolutely-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It was six months ago.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Through the Chair, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We will absolutely continue to look at that. The work being done through the Housing Agency is very important in helping homeowners, first, apply to the scheme and, second, make sure the scheme works for them. When I inherited the scheme, it was a 90-10 model, with a grant amount of €247,000. It has been changed completely and we are seeing homeowners engage with it. Are there...