Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Act 2025

Amendment of section 47 of Principal Act

30. Section 47 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (3):

“(3A) The SEAI may share information with a designated local authority where it is necessary and proportionate to establish the funding which has been provided or is to be provided by the SEAI to a person who has made an application under section 13, 17A or 23A, as the case may be.

(3B) The information referred to in subsection (3A) may include:

(a) a relevant owner’s name and address;

(b) the address and Eircode of a relevant dwelling;

(c) the meter point reference number assigned to an electricity account in the relevant dwelling;

(d) an application for funding made by a relevant owner to the SEAI;

(e) the amount of funding provided or to be provided by the SEAI to a relevant owner;

(f) the purpose of funding provided or to be provided by the SEAI to a relevant owner.”,

and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):

“(4) In this section—

‘public body’ has the same meaning as it has in section 10 of the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019 and shall also include—

(a) the SEAI,

(b) the Geological Survey of Ireland, and

(c) the National Standards Authority of Ireland;

‘SEAI’ means the Sustainable Energy Ireland - The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.”.