Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a development (details supplied) comes under the defective apartment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45205/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Apartments and duplexes built between 1991 and 2013 with defects caused by defective design, workmanship or materials that breached the Building Regulations that applied when the property was built will qualify for remediation under the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Scheme.

The Interim Remediation Scheme for the funding of eligible emergency fire safety defect works in apartments and duplexes has been in place since December 2023. The Scheme, which is being administered by the Housing Agency on a nationwide basis, is open to applications from apartment Owners’ Management Companies (OMCs) via the Housing Agency’s website.

Full remedial works, which will include all eligible necessary fire safety measures as well as those related to water ingress and structural damage, will be funded under the forthcoming statutory Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Scheme. Priority drafting of the legislation to underpin the Scheme, the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill 2024, was approved by Government on 18 September 2024. It is expected the legislation will be published later this year and that, subject to the legislative process, the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Scheme will be in place shortly thereafter.

To establish if a development is eligible, the Owners' Management Company and/or its individual members can find further eligibility criteria and scheme information at www.housingagency.ie/interim-remediation-scheme-fire-safety-defects-eligible-apartments-and-duplexes-2023

Where eligible fire safety defects are present, the Owners' Management Company may apply to the Interim Remediation Scheme.