Seanad debates

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Commencement Matters

Building Regulations

10:30 am

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Any logical person would accept that first of all the facts must be established. Is there one reason for it or is there a combination of reasons? I understand Senator Mac Lochlainn has his view on it and that is fine, but we have an independent expert panel to inform both Houses of exactly what happened. Then we can judge what happened. In the meantime, I will go up there myself to meet residents and councillors from any party. I will meet anyone who wants to meet me. There is no problem whatsoever. The door is open. However, we will establish all the facts behind this and follow a procedure from then on. That is the best way to address this. It is the way we have implemented other schemes.

Senator Mac Lochlainn commented on the pyrite scheme and the same approach was used there: first we established the facts behind it. Each situation is different. The pyrite and the mica situation are different but we will establish the facts. That is the right way to go and I will continue the work the former Minister of State, Senator Coffey, started on this to try to find a solution to it in the end.

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