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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Christopher O'Sullivan (FF), Cork South-West

I was not reading from a script. Deputy Doherty mentioned, in the example he provided, that perhaps a policy instruction came from the Department of justice and that the Department of Finance legislated for it. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is legislating in this instance, and there may be policy discussions. Quite often in the context of housing policies we suggest taxation measures. However, those measures are always legislated for by the Department of Finance. We are here dealing with legislation. I am not sure if I am being clear enough on that. If there were taxation measures involved, legislation would have to be brought forward by the Department of Finance, as in the example the Deputy just cited.
I appreciate the comments made in relation to rental capacity and capacity in generally, especially in the context of how acute the situation is in Donegal.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10