Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-06
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Darragh O'Brien (FF), Dublin Fingal

All I will say to the Deputy is that nobody is throwing around figures of €2.7 billion. That is not the purpose. The State needs to intervene in a market failure on behalf of its citizens, to help people to get their homes and their lives back together. I am not throwing around figures of €2.7 billion. That is the cost initially. That only takes in a certain amount of inflation. The decision the Dáil will make this evening and the Oireachtas will make by the end of next week is whether we will stay with an old scheme that obviously failed people or move on with an enhanced scheme that is going to-----

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Sitting date: 2022-07-06