Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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793. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review the conclusions of the Pyrite report, given the experience since remediation started. [6937/16]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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The pyrite remediation scheme, which was first published by the Pyrite Resolution Board in February 2014, was developed having regard to, inter alia, the recommendations set out in the (July 2012) and the relevant provisions of the . The full conditions for eligibility are set out in the scheme, which is available on the Board’s website at .

It is a condition of eligibility under the scheme that an application to the Board must be accompanied by a Building Condition Assessment, carried out by a competent person in accordance with I.S. 398-1:2013 Reactive pyrite in sub-floor hardcore material – Part 1: Testing and categorisation protocol, indicating a Damage Condition Rating of 2. There are no proposals to amend this eligibility criterion.

While a review of the pyrite remediation scheme is not under consideration, the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) has commenced a review of I.S. 398 -1:2013 in the light of practical experience since the standard was first introduced in January 2013. This standard sets out the national procedures for the assessment of pyritic damage and for the testing of pyrite in the subfloor hardcore material of dwellings and is a key document in both the operation of the Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 and the pyrite remediation scheme.

In August 2015, t he NSAI invited submissions from an expert committee on their experience and knowledge of I.S. 398-1 since publication. I understand that the expert committee, having considered the review submissions, made a recommendation to NSAI in support of a programme for the revision of the standard. A work programme was duly prepared for implementation and I understand that the expert committee commenced work on revising the standard in January 2016.