Written answers

Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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1713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to carry out a formal detailed review of the pyrite remediation scheme; his further plans to amend the scheme to permit the inclusion of homes with a level 1 category damage assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36583/17]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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1715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for homes that are affected by pyrite but that have been left out of the remediation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36604/17]

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1713 and 1715 together.

The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board and for the making of a pyrite remediation scheme to be implemented by the Board, with support from the Housing Agency.  The pyrite remediation scheme is a scheme of “last resort” and is limited in its application and scope.  The full conditions for eligibility under the scheme are set out in the scheme, which is available on the Board’s website, www.pyriteboard.ie.

The scheme is applicable to dwellings, which are subject to significant damage attributable to pyritic heave, established in accordance with I.S. 398-1:2013 - Reactive pyrite in sub-floor hardcore material - Part 1: Testing and categorisation protocol.  In this regard, it is a condition of eligibility under the scheme that an application to the Board must be accompanied by a Building Condition Assessment with a Damage Condition Rating of 2.  Dwellings which do not have a Damage Condition Rating of 2 are not eligible to apply under the scheme.  This ensures that, having regard to the available resources, the focus of the scheme is on dwellings which are most severely damaged by pyritic heave.  I have no proposals to amend this eligibility criterion.

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