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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Charles Ward (RDR), Donegal

As Deputy O'Donoghue was saying about building, I have built for years and years, including in Inishowen, the most affected area, in the Finn Valley and in all these areas. However, I have also poured concrete into the streets. As Deputy O'Donoghue was saying, aggregate stone is a little bit different but the same infected stone is used. We have it in the streets, in the houses, everywhere. There are nurseries in that county that are falling and the children cannot even go outside to play because the pathways are turning to dust. I keep saying it is only a matter of time. To use the word "block" is inaccurate. It is in the aggregate stone. When they quarried into the quarry and they hit the vein of pyrite, pyrrhotite or whatever it was, that was the infection. That was the core. It came out, it went into the marketplace and it spread throughout.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10