Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Bill 2025: Instruction to Committee
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-10
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Charles Ward (RDR), Donegal

This Bill should have been an opportunity to correct a fundamentally broken system regarding everything from building control to where we are heading right now. Instead, we are laying more complexity on top of injustice and calling it progress. I have submitted 18 pages of amendments to improve this scheme, to make it fair and to make it work, yet more than half of these amendments have been thrown out, including an amendment providing for a March cut-off date. However, 43 families were absolutely left behind having been reassured by the previous housing Minister that this would not happen. They were abandoned.
My amendment to provide interim arrangements regarding IS 465 in line with scientific evidence and reinstating the original engineering determinations was thrown out. I refer to 160 families who were downgraded and left behind. The proposal for movable modular homes as an option to ultimately save the State in terms of ancillary grants and payments was left behind.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10