Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the 20 year claw back requirement for owners of rental properties that avail of remediation under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. [56505/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (the Act) on 22 June 2023 which contains the enhanced grant scheme and adopted the related Regulations on 29 June 2023.

The Grant Scheme applies to the owners of dwellings located in designated local authorities, which are damaged due to the use of defective concrete blocks.

The dwelling must be:

a) the individual's principal private residence, that is, a house which an individual owns (or co-owns) and occupies as his or her only or main residence.

b) a rented dwelling with a registered tenancy that was registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) on or before 1 November 2021 subject to a maximum of one rental property per household.

Relevant RTB registered properties are subject to charging order that creates a charge over the relevant dwelling, equal to the payments made to the landlord who is the relevant owner for a period of 20 years.

I currently have no plans to amend these conditions as set down by the Oireachtas.