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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is clear that the defective concrete block grant scheme is failing miserably, and 1,300 people turning up in Inishowen to tell their lived experiences is an example of that. There were 500 people at a similar event in County Mayo in the last month. There are many issues with it. It is not 100% redress. Those who are trying to muddle through with this failed scheme are finding it really...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I reject completely the charge that we have stuck our heads in the sand. Let us deal with the issue itself, however. Deputy Doherty is aware that in June of last year, I commenced the enhanced scheme through the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022. I remind him that he and his party voted against that enhanced scheme, which would have left...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: If the Minister or his Cabinet colleague had turned up to the public meeting, which was in his colleague's own back yard in Inishowen, he would have heard very clearly that this scheme is not working. Maybe then the Minister would take his head out of the sand. This scheme is not working. We voted against it because we voted for the amendments the campaigners wanted to make sure it would...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Doherty knows very well that his constituency colleague - the Minister, Deputy McConalogue - was on European business that evening. The Minister engages with me on a daily basis and advocates in a positive and constructive way for changes to the scheme. He actually made an input into the new scheme, unlike what Deputy Doherty did. I will remind the Deputy that I wrote to him, his...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not. That is rubbish.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: -----proposed, which is for one property and one additional property. I know there was also much discussion around holiday homes and otherwise that evening. I want to make sure that the Deputy did not commit to it that evening either. The reality of it is that it is our job to make this scheme work. It is working for households. It needs to improve-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: As I said-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Let the Minister finish, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You do not have a clue.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I am sorry-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am sorry; I thought the time was up. I apologise, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Excuse me for a second. I have said every scheme evolves and this scheme-----
- 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.