Alan Farrell (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans in relation to ongoing funding for the Pyrite Resolution Board and the housing agency, with regard to the remediation of homes affected by pyrite. [15558/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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An allocation of €10 million has been provided in my Department’s Estimate for 2015 to fund the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme this year and I am satisfied that the Pyrite Resolution Board will have the resources required to meet the level of activity anticipated for the year. The post-2015 funding requirement will be considered in the context of the 2016 Estimates later this year and will have regard to developments under the scheme over the next few months as well as the level of activity anticipated by the Board in 2016.

Since the pyrite remediation scheme was first published in February 2014, the Pyrite Resolution Board has received over 700 completed applications and applications continue to be received currently at a rate of 5 - 6 per week. Of the 700 applications, 342 dwellings have been accepted into the scheme with technical consultants assigned to them and the necessary preparatory work, tendering or remediation either underway or imminent.

A pilot project comprising 5 dwellings was completed in late 2014 while 3 remediation projects of 69 dwellings are currently underway on site; a further remediation project, totalling 32 dwellings, will commence on site later this month. Also this month, tender proposals have been received, or are due, for 3 more remediation projects, totalling another 59 dwellings, while an additional 3 remediation projects, totalling a further 62 dwellings, will go out to tender.