Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 February 2015
581. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to set down the number of homes that have been remediated under the pyrite remediation scheme in the years 2014 and 2015. [8066/15]
View answerSince the pyrite remediation 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 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.
Design professionals have been appointed to 12 projects involving some 255 dwellings. A pilot project involving the remediation of 5 dwellings was completed in the latter half of 2014. I understand that a works contract for 20 houses has recently been awarded and works commenced last week, while a number of procurements in relation to a further 4 developments involving some 74 dwellings are nearing contract award stage.
