Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a number of homes in County Clare which have been adversely impacted by defective building blocks; if he will make the necessary arrangements to extend the defective concrete block grant scheme to County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32035/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The regulations for the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant scheme came in to operation on 31 January 2020. 

The Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks in Construction (Remediation) (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2020 provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of Donegal and Mayo only, to carry out the necessary remediation works to dwellings that have been damaged due to the use of defective concrete blocks.

The Scheme opened for applications at the end of June 2020 and I have no plans currently to extend it to other local authority areas.