Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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1046. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an up-to-date list of the number of applications made to the Pyrite Resolution Board; the number of dwellings approved for remediation; remediated; to which project managers have been appointed; for which decisions were overturned on appeal; which were accepted for remediation despite having a building condition assessment of less than two. [37486/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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The latest figures available from the Pyrite Resolution Board indicate that approximately 897 applications have been received under the pyrite remediation scheme , of which 664 have been approved for inclusion in the scheme as follows: -

-239 are at remedial works planning stage,

-46 are at tender / tender analysis,

-171 are at tender decision,

-106 are under remediation, and

-102 are complete.

It is anticipated that circa 230 dwellings will be remediated, or under remediation, by end 2015 with this figure projected to rise to an estimated 500 dwellings by mid-2016.

As matters currently stand, there are approximately 23 projects approved for inclusion under the pyrite remediation scheme to which project managers have been assigned by the Housing Agency. Another four projectsare due to go to tender before December 2015 and will have project managers assigned shortly .

I understand that a total of 7 appeals have been made to the Pyrite Resolution Board since the inception of the scheme; 2 decisions to refuse were overturned by the Board on appeal. My Department understands that a further 2 appeals were withdrawn by the appellants on the grounds that the Damage Condition Ratings in respect of the dwellings concerned progressed from 1 to 2 and their applications were subsequently accepted for inclusion into the scheme. No other dwellings with Damage Condition Ratings of less than 2 have been accepted into the scheme.