Over 1,500 pyrite redress requests approved last year

The body which oversees works to reverse pyrite damage in properties received more than one application every day last year and believe it will be 2020 before the rate of repair work begins to slow.

The 2017 annual report of the Pyrite Resolution Board to the Minister for Housing revealed that by the end of last year, 1,963 applications had been received, of which 1,523 had been approved for inclusion in the scheme to facilitate the remediation of houses and apartments suffering significant damage due to pyritic heave of floors and where the owners have no other practicable options for redress.

It said 945 dwellings were remediated and works contracts were in place for a further 139 dwellings.