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CABINET YESTERDAY APPROVED the publication of the Pyrite Resolution Bill and the early enactment of the legislation, which will provide for the operation of a remediation scheme for work on affected properties.
Commenting yesterday, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan said he will be bringing the bill to the Oireachtas in the next week and it is his intention that it will pass all stages before the Christmas recess.
The government has previously approved €10 million initial funding to kickstart the scheme, with additional funding to be allocated over the next two years.
The passing of the bill will enable the Pyrite Resolution Board to begin taking applications and allow for remediation work to commence as early as the new year, according to the minister.
“I am keenly aware of the long wait that many affected homeowners have had to endure in waiting for solutions to the pyrite problems in their homes,” Hogan said. “It has not been an easy time for those people and I understand how stressful such situations can be but today’s government decision represents another important milestone on the road to providing solutions for homeowners and to put an end to the long wait.”
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First Cowboys, now Pyrites……
Again, the state does nothing for those who try to improve their situation. Handouts for those who are affected by pyrite at no expense to the ones who are to blame. No remuneration for the ones who have already fixed the problem in their home out of their own pockets, and no punishment for those that caused the problems.
If u have any saving you won’t get help either
Forget the Pirite for minute. The gas flue in the picture is within 600mm of that window and is against building regulations. I’m sick of what has passed as building practice in this country. Land of cowboys and FF degenerates.
I was wit a builder 10 yrs ago that was a engineer on d port tunnel + they got pyrite 2 build wit but tested it + sent it back… Wonder where it ended up…. Mmmm ponder
At last took long enough
The crazy thing Ireland full of pyrite and yet no one has took advantage of it. Pyrite can be used to make jewelry and make up.
7 years on and the victims of the Celtic Tiger get a bit of gestural Chicken feed compensation sprinkled on them.
While the regulators, TD’s, Senior Civil Servants, Bankers and cowboy builder “developers” (and their accountancy and legal enablers) who instigated this travesty are kept in clover.
Going for dramatics with that picture? It’s expanding foam not pyrite!
The expanding foam is used to fill cracks caused by the use of pyrite, what do you think the pyrite problem has caused ? A weakening of superman’s powers ?
Has it not? I hear that’s why superman is in a wheel chair?
http://www.crystalvaults.com/crystal-encyclopedia/pyrite have a look i don’t know why with all in Ireland make good use of it.
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