Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 July 2015
773. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of building condition assessments with damage condition rating 2 received by the Pyrite Resolution Board to date; and the number of houses remediated since the Pyrite Resolution Board began accepting the assessments in August 2013 [30304/15]
View answerThe pyrite remediation scheme, which was first published by the Pyrite Resolution Board in February of 2014, was developed having regard to, inter alia, the recommendations set out in the Report of the Pyrite Panel (July 2012) and the relevant provisions of the Pyrite Resolution Act 2013. The full conditions for eligibility are set out in the scheme, which is available on the Board’s website at www.pyriteboard.ie. It is a condition of eligibility under the scheme that an application to the Board must be accompanied by a Building Condition Assessment, carried out by a competent person in accordance with I.S. 398-1:2013 Reactive pyrite in sub-floor hardcore material – Part 1: Testing and categorisation protocol, indicating a Damage Condition Rating of 2.
As at 30 June 2015, a total of 763 completed applications had been received under the pyrite remediation scheme of which 520 dwellings had been included in the scheme and the applicants notified accordingly; my Department understands that 519 of these dwellings had Damage Condition Ratings of 2. In addition, 117 applications had been validated and referred to the Housing Agency for the Assessment and Verification stage of the process; all of these applications were accompanied by Building Condition Assessments with Damage Condition Ratings of 2. A further 115 applications were at the initial Application and Validation stage of the scheme; given that the initial validation has not been completed on these applications, the number of Building Conditions Assessments with Damage Condition Ratings of 2 has yet to be confirmed.
The remaining 11 applications (of the 763 total) were closed on the grounds that they did not meet the eligibility criteria of the scheme or were duplicate applications etc.
Of the 520 dwellings that had been included in the pyrite remediation scheme as at the end of June 2015: remediation works had been completed on 21 dwellings; remediation works were underway in respect of a further 132 dwellings; and 367 dwellings were at the remedial works planning / tender preparation stages of the process.
On completion of remediation works, each scheme participant receives a signed Certificate of Remediation, in accordance with Annex B of I.S. 398-2: 2013: Reactive pyrite in the sub-floor hardcore material – Part 2: Methodology for remediation works, for the dwelling.
