Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an expansion to the mica redress scheme to allow for non-principal primary residences to be included (details supplied). [46258/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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I commenced the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (the Act) on 22 June 2023 which contains the enhanced grant scheme and adopted the related Regulations on 29 June 2023.

The Grant Scheme applies to the owners of dwellings located in designated local authorities, which are damaged due to the use of defective concrete blocks and provided the dwelling is the owner’s principal private residence, or a rented dwelling registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) on or before 1 November 2021 subject to a maximum of one rental property per household.

My Department’s Your Questions Answered (YQA) document outlines that a dwelling may be deemed the individual's principal private residence where the dwelling previously had been, but ceased to be such solely by virtue of the damage to the dwelling arising out of, or in connection with, the use of defective concrete blocks in its construction.

The detailed operation of the Scheme is a matter for the designated local authorities and queries such as this should be addressed to the relevant local authority in the first instance.