Written answers
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Defective Building Materials
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline what the 2024 budget is for assisting families availing of the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme; if he is satisfied that this amount will be sufficient to cover the costs of all those who wish to avail of the scheme. [45233/23]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will provide the necessary funding to Donegal County Council to allow it to commence the process of remediating its housing stock affected by defective concrete blocks. [45234/23]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Section 36 of the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 provides that the Government may make a scheme for the purposes of enabling a designated local authority or an approved housing body to remedy damage caused to dwellings by the use of defective concrete blocks in their construction. The grant rates for this local authority and approved housing body DCB scheme shall be the same as the enhanced DCB grant scheme.
My Department is working with the four designated local authorities to develop a scheme that can be rolled out to all of these councils. Given the level of impact of DCB in Donegal that Council have taken a leading and active role in this work. I expect to be in a position to provide full details of this scheme in the coming weeks.
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