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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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

I need clarity before I leave here tonight. I want to be able to tell the people of Lios na Circe and Westport what this means for them. Not only are these semi-detached, detached or terraced houses, but the topography of where they are built means they are sitting on a number of slopes. These houses were built by an approved housing body with the local authority and local authority mortgages. The Minister of State is saying that this amendment is designed to bring flexibility so that if one homeowner applies and they want to rebuild their house and they meet the damage threshold, the other relevant owner can then bypass, if you like, the threshold required or that can be taken into consideration. Is that what the Government is trying to do in order to bring in the flexibility? I am trying to understand. It should be the default position that the relevant house can be done as well at the same time if it is very obvious that it has defective concrete blocks and foundations. The amendment provides that the "owner of the attached dwelling may appeal the decision in accordance with Part 5 within 90 days of the date of the notification". Is the Government really saying there will be cases that will need to be appealed because somebody decides the attached house cannot be done at that particular time?
Could the Minister of State clarify that, because I want to know what to tell these people?

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10