Clare Daly
Question:1109. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the moneys allocated in budget 2016 for the pyrite remediation scheme in 2016. [38310/15]
View answerTuesday, 3 November 2015
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A sum of €19 million was announced under Budget 2016 to fund the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme in 2016. This represents a substantial increase over the allocation of €10 million provided in 2015 and is a clear signal of the importance attached by Government to addressing the issue of pyrite remediation and will facilitate an acceleration in activity under the scheme in 2016.
The latest figures available indicate that approximately 897 applications have been received under the pyrite remediation scheme of which 664 have been approved for inclusion in the scheme as follows:
- 239 are at remedial works planning stage,
- 46 are at tender/tender analysis,
- 171 are at tender decision,
- 106 are under remediation, and
- 102 are complete.
It is anticipated that circa 230 dwellings will be remediated, or under remediation, by end 2015, and an estimated 500 dwellings will be remediated, or under remediation, by mid-2016.