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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Even though this was subject to European law, that was not considered as part of the development of the existing standard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What has been said to me by experts, because this is particularly relevant to Donegal, is that what is happening in Donegal is that our homeowners have been diagnosed with the wrong cancer. I am sorry to use that phrase. Because they are being diagnosed with the wrong cancer, they have the wrong prognosis and the wrong cure. Is that an acceptable statement to make? If the emerging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Dr. Murphy. That is the view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The emerging evidence is that the deleterious material, or the cancer, that is causing what is happening to homes in Donegal is not actually mica but pyrrhotite and internal sulphate attack. Is that fair to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Last year, the NSAI said it would consider an interim recommendation if it was deemed necessary. As the witnesses know, since the legislation was drafted for the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme and it was finally rushed through the Houses in July 2022, homeowners have repeatedly asked about this. Why have the foundations not been tested? Why has there not been an interim...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: All the representatives of the NSAI here today will know that we are in a serious situation, as identified by Engineers Ireland for a second time before this committee. There is a significant dilemma. It is deeply unfair, mostly to the homeowners but also to engineers to compete with and contradict each other based on a standard that none of them have confidence in. I leave that as stated....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is that happening, in Ms Stapleton's view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: How can that be Ms Stapleton's understanding? I am just giving her absolute, clear feedback from my own county that there is a large number of homeowners in their sixties and seventies. I invited her colleague, Mr. Derek Rafferty. There are facilitators who work at the coalface for the Inishowen Development Partnership. They work for Donegal Local Development Company. Their job is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is my final question and it is for everybody. Do the witnesses know of anybody who is in their late fifties, sixties or seventies who would be loaned anything between €50,000 and €150,000 by any financial institution in the State? Is anybody aware of a financial institution that would be in a position to lend such an amount to people of that age?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 14 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21222/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application (details supplied) will be processed in time for travel on 14 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when clarity will be provide to the SEAI by his Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure that applicants to the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme can avail of the maximum SEAI retrofitting grant. [21632/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (14 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to increase the cap for the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme in line with increased building construction costs, as advised by an organisation (details supplied). [21631/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (9 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the draft regulations pertaining to the defective concrete block scheme for social housing remediation works will be adopted and published (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21022/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she and her Department will engage with the UK authorities to examine if an exemption could be allowed for Ukrainian refugee children based in Donegal and other Border counties to travel across the Border into Northern Ireland to avail of amenities such as swimming, cinemas and school tours. [21070/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Staff (9 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with her colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs on what can be done to assist medical professionals working in our health service who have family back home in Sudan, by way of humanitarian assistance; and if she has received requests for humanitarian visas for family members of these medical...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As we are debating Europe Day and Ireland's place in the EU, I will take the opportunity to talk about one group for which the experience has been negative, our fishing and coastal communities. The issue relates to how the Common Fisheries Policy has been rolled out, interpreted and enforced in Ireland and how it has repeatedly gone unchanged. A 14-year-old girl has done more than most in...