Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-16
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Frances Black (IND), Industrial and Commercial Panel

I move amendment No. 16:
In page 29, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:
“(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (13):
“(14) The Appeals Board shall publish, in anonymised form, every decision made under this Part within 90 days of the decision. Such publication shall include the facts, issues, reasoning, statutory interpretation and final outcome.”.”.
Amendment No. 16 would ensure that every decision made by the appeals board must be published in an anonymised form within 90 days, showing the facts, reasoning and outcomes. Homeowners are trapped in appeals that can last for years while the Housing Agency hides behind claims of independence. The appeals board is also shirking its responsibilities by passing the buck between it and the Housing Agency while operating in secrecy.
This amendment would set clear deadlines for the publication of decisions made by the appeals board. It implements transparency where there is currently none. It will address the uncertainty that is plaguing families because the system seems unaccountable and utterly opaque. Homeowners deserve to see how decisions on appeals are made. I do not understand what is achieved by hiding these decisions. After all, what people affected by this crisis have been through is off the Richter scale, to be fair. They do not deserve this secrecy and these delays without any real explanation.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-16