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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Jordan know how many have been refused?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the moment I only want to know about new applications. Of the 436 new applications that have come in, how many have progressed? Can Mr. Espey give us any information on the status of those applications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That means 16 have been excluded. What about the others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can Mr. Espey give us some information in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of those, how many have drawn down any of that grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: These are pretty basic questions. I know people work really hard on this scheme, but it is really important that we are able to get a sense of what is happening. A total of 195 of those 436 have been offered or awarded a grant of some form based on remediation option. How many of them have drawn down any of that money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the legislation was rammed through the Dáil last year, we were told that it would fix many of the problems. The expectation was that we would start to see a significant increase in the number of applications and applications being processed more quickly. I am not hearing anything to tell me that we have a higher rate of applications or a quicker processing time of those new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When many of those applications were transferred over, a considerable chunk were stuck in the old decision-making process. The idea was that the consistency of approach Ms Stapleton outlined would have helped to expedite them. Of those 1,644, how many have moved to a grant determination?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Only 192. Does that mean everyone else is stuck somewhere else in the process waiting for a decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can somebody explain the 1,644 figure versus the two figures Mr. Espey has just given me? Is the difference down to ones that had already progressed on to stage 2 or had a remediation option? How many did the Housing Agency have to consider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On how many of those has the Housing Agency made determinations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The figures here show total payments made at 1,242. This relates to Deputy McAuliffe's question. What is the total number of households that have received the full grant determination, whether from the older scheme or the revised scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is 18 completed and 43 in Donegal. Therefore, it is likely that they have got the bulk of that cash.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to make a brief comment in the minutes remaining to me. Mr. Kelly has given us an update on the local authority houses. My understanding was there were to have been some pilot or Pathfinder projects. Have any of those projects commenced any work on remediating social housing stock?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has anything been done in Donegal to remediate local authority social housing stock or AHB stock? Have any homes been remediated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are years into this scheme. The working group report came out in 2017. I am now being told that only 40, 50 or 60 homes have received their full grant. Only 192 of the ones that were stuck in the old scheme have progressed and only 195 of the new applications have had an offer. There have only been 436 applications. I will come back to the matter on a subsequent round but that says to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of those, how many have been deemed valid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to go back to figures, although I presume we will continue the conversation about the review of the industry standard. I have been looking back at the Estimates. In 2021, 2022 and 2023, €146 million was allocated to pyrite and mica remediation. Obviously a portion of that is to the Leinster pyrite scheme. Would Ms Stapleton know, even notionally, how much of that €146...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (14 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In real terms, because the scheme only opened in 2021, expenditure would not really have occurred in 2021, so that €100 million is over 2022 and 2023. Am I correct in saying the total expenditure to date on the scheme is only €25 million?