Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-10
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Eoin Ó Broin (SF), Dublin Mid-West

I will respond to the Minister. It is clear that the Minister does not actually understand the significance of the amendment that has been tabled by Deputy Ward. The problem is that deleterious materials in concrete are not confined solely to concrete blocks. They are in poured concrete and other materials. One of the fundamental weaknesses of the original regulations and the former Minister, Darragh O'Brien's 2022 scheme is that they confine the issue of deleterious materials to block only.
I know the Minister is not going to accept the amendment. Hopefully, when the review of IS 465 is resolved, he will eventually realise that one of the many limitations - we will talk about those at great length throughout the course of the next four hours - of the scheme he is seeking to amend is that it is blind to instances where the deleterious material is in building materials other than block. This amendment, therefore, does not render the Short Title incomplete. It actually rectifies, albeit in the Title as opposed to the substance of the Bill, a significant limitation in the original scheme. This is going to have to change at some point. Obviously, it will not be now but it will change at some point.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10