Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2022-07-14
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John Cummins (FG), Labour Panel

On the section and the point Senator Gavan keeps referring to about the €200,000 property, I note we have not had a response from the Sinn Féin representatives on the figure they consider appropriate to provide for what they say is 100% redress. Perhaps they do not know. Perhaps they have not been authorised to give that figure to this House. If we do the maths on the example they are giving, it works out at €206 per square foot. The Sinn Féin representatives are saying €206 per square foot should be provided under this scheme, yet they and their party spokesperson, Deputy Ó Broin, can build 20,000 social and affordable homes for €123 per square foot. I hope Deputy Ó Broin is watching the television here and that he will be including those figures in his budget at the end of September because what that would actually show is that, based on Sinn Féin's previous pre-budget submission, it would have a €2 billion hole in its budget.

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Sitting date: 2022-07-14