Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 12 November 2015
199. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in cases where the original owner of a property dies, if the person who succeeds in ownership of that property is entitled to access the pyrite remediation scheme. [39926/15]
View answerThe Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides the statutory framework for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board and for the making of a pyrite remediation scheme to be implemented by the Board with support from the Housing Agency. The Act also sets out the broad parameters which the Board must have regard to when establishing the eligibility criteria for the pyrite remediation scheme.
While Section 15(3) of the Act explicitly provides that an application cannot be made under the scheme by a person who purchases a dwelling on or after 12 December 2013 where that person knows, or ought to know, that the dwelling was constructed using hardcore containing reactive pyrite, there is no analogous prohibition for persons affected by a succession in title, subject to all other eligibility criteria under the scheme being met. In this regard, there would be no impediment to such a person making an application under the pyrite remediation scheme.
