Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 February 2015
577. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government from where the pyrite remediation scheme draws its funding and the number of households that have applied for funding to date. [7951/15]
View answerFunding of €10 million is being provided by my Department for the implementation of the pyrite remediation scheme in 2015 in light of anticipated activity under the scheme this year. Since the scheme was first published in February 2014, the Pyrite Resolution Board has received in the order of 630 completed applications. A total of 485 applications have been validated and forwarded to the Housing Agency for the verification stage of the process; of those over 300 have now been approved by the Board for inclusion in the scheme and the applicants have been notified. Applications for dwellings not yet included in the scheme are being processed as quickly as individual circumstances allow.
