Written answers
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Fire Safety
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the establishment of the interim remediation scheme to tackle some of the most serious fire safety issues in apartment blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12584/24]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I announced on 11 December 2023 the opening of the Interim Remediation Scheme (Scheme) for the funding of emergency fire safety defect works in apartments and duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013.
The Scheme, which is being administered by the Housing Agency on a nationwide basis, is open to applications from Apartment Owner Management Companies (OMCs) via the Housing Agency’s website:
www.housingagency.ie/interim-remediation-scheme-fire-safety-defects-eligible-apartments-and-duplexes-2023.
In the period since the Scheme’s launch, up to and including 29 February 2024, 110 applications are being progressed across 26 local authority areas, representing a total of 11,350 residential units.
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