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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Sep 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The management and maintenance of local authority housing stock, including pre-letting repairs to vacant properties, the implementation of a planned maintenance programme and carrying out of responsive repairs, are matters for each individual local authority under Section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Local authorities also have a legal obligation to ensure that all of their tenanted properties...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Following on from the Government decision of the 30 November 2021 in respect of the enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant scheme, the Government approved the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022 on 21 June and the Bill passed through both Houses of the Oireachtas and was subsequently signed into law by the President on the 23 July,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (28 Sep 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 148 and 149 together. One of my first tasks following the formation of Government was the establishment of an independent Working Group to examine certain defects in purpose built apartment buildings, including duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013.  At the end of July I received and published the comprehensive report titled Defects in...