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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have two very quick questions. If there is somebody starting their rebuild next week who has not had their foundations tested, would Mr. Owens's advice and the advice of Engineers Ireland be to hold off until they can get that test done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sorry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is in Mayo too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, of course it would. The last thing we want to do is delay matters, but we do not want to find ourselves in a situation where they have to start rebuilding once more. For clarity, is Mr. Owens recommending that people have their foundations tested before they start to rebuild? Is that his professional opinion? I know it is up to individual homeowners.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For fairness, if the new standards say that the foundations should be included, then it would be absolutely fair to have retrospective funding in respect of anything that is paid out at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For somebody starting to build their own home today and having their blocks delivered, what guarantees are there that they do not contain the same materials that caused all the damage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is what I am asking Mr. Owens. Do the new regulations mean that people could have confidence in the blocks that are being delivered to them today, provided the engineer involved did their job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So a quarry could not be supplying damaged blocks today. Is that Mr. Owens' view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the current regulations fit for purpose in the context of ensuring that this will not happen again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The current building regulations and regulations for the quarries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How is all this being measured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That would obviously have been done in the first place when people were impacted by the defective block issue. That would have been done in the first place, where the engineer would have signed off on everything. I am just asking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That concludes proceedings. I thank all of the witnesses for being here. It was a very valuable session, and I thank all the contributors and members. We look forward to next week's meeting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [19529/24]

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sinn Féin believes that Ireland can better create a fair, efficient and enforced immigration system by exercising its rights to opt out of a majority of the EU pact's proposals. Sinn Féin opposed the migration and asylum pact for very good reasons. First, it undermines human rights. At the justice committee yesterday, several human rights organisations outlined a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected Exchequer capital spend for 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027; what the Exchequer expenditure represents as a percentage share of GNI* based on the updated projections in the stability programme update; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19900/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average fees being paid by parents (exclusive of State-provided ECCE funding) prior to reductions and savings from the national childcare subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to the Exchequer of a 1 cent increase in the national childcare subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19902/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of a 1 cent increase in wages in the childcare sector if the State were to directly subsidise the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19903/24]