Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 10c:

In page 13, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“(r) All homes with a 1 per cent plus level of pyrite shall be eligible to apply to the remediation scheme.”.

In this amendment I propose that all homes with a 1% plus level of pyrite shall be eligible to apply to the remediation scheme. I am aware that the Minister is ensuring that those worst affected, where the homes are showing signs of severe pyritic heave, are remediated first. I mentioned that with time the problem gets worse if it is not fixed.

The Department states that a level of 1% pyrite is safe, but I am aware that the level is much lower in Britain, which is somewhere between 0.25% and 0.5%. We have set the level of acceptability of pyrite at a higher level. That is the reason I propose that all homes with a level of pyrite in excess of 1% shall be eligible to apply to the remediation scheme.