Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-09-23
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Charles Ward (RDR), Donegal

We have unethical engineering going on in this scheme. That cannot be denied. A number of people were downgraded. They were granted full demolition. An engineer came out, did their job, examined it and then it was passed over to the Housing Agency. Someone in the agency looked at that fellow engineer's work and then downgraded it. This is unethical. It is unethical engineering. What is going on has been going on for some time. We suspect that this is widespread and that it will continue. How can we have engineers determining if something is a downgrade when we are reviewing IS 465? They are still coming downgrading people, even though we do not have the review of IS 465. Can the Government please put something in place to suspend this in order that these people will have a chance to get their reviews done properly and not when we are in the middle of a review of IS 465?

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Sitting date: 2025-09-23