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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Campbell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. Cleary. There is a second Green Party speaking slot now, but I will let that go because I want to make sure that everyone gets in to speak. With the second Independent Group speaking slot is Deputy O'Donoghue going to take this again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I remind the Deputy that there are three minutes if he wants to put a question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Professor Dunlop. I know Mr. Campbell wants to come in with a comment and I will try to get him in on a later slot. Senator Cummins will take the third Fine Gael slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I appreciate that. I call Deputy McNamara followed by Deputy Pringle. We will then have a third round with Deputy Ó Broin. I also have one brief question to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I have a brief question, although I do not know how brief the answer will be. How long does it take before the effects can be visibly seen, if a home has been constructed with one of these deleterious materials? Do weather conditions or geographical conditions exacerbate it, such as being in a coastal area? In her opening statement, Ms Cleary said there were ten or 12 other counties where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I wonder about the extent of the problem and if we will see more and more houses affected over the next five, ten or 15 years. It is difficult to answer that question. I thank the witnesses for their assistance in this matter. It has been very helpful. From the testimony it is very clear how stressful and worrying the issue has been, not just over the past couple of weeks as we waited...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I now invite Mr. Owens to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I now invite Mr. Mahon to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Mahon. We will go now to questions from the members. We can stretch the time each member has for questions and answers to seven minutes because of the attendance. It will still be helpful, however, if the members can keep their questions direct. I call Deputy Calleary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: If the officials could take a note of that and respond in writing, that would be great. We will move to the Sinn Féin side and Deputy Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. We move now to the Fine Gael slot and I call on Deputy Higgins to speak, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Higgins. I move on now to the Rural Independent Deputies group, Deputy O’Donoghue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: The discussion we have in front of us now is about the scope but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: That is fine but we are dealing with the Bill here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: Okay, but I am unsure if our witnesses can an answer those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: Please do, Mr. Forde.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: I said that members had six minutes but they actually had seven minutes so I apologise to the opening contributors that I cut them short by a minute but we will make it up to them at the end. I will take the next slot, which is a Green Party one, and I will give myself seven minutes to be fair. I thank the witnesses for being here and I echo Deputy Ó'Broin's words that some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Steven Matthews: Can I clarify the issue around the foundations? In the last two to three days I received quite a few emails from people and from one of our representatives in Donegal stating that foundations cannot be replaced as part of this scheme. Is that correct?