Pyrite Remediation Scheme Closes 30 November 2026

The Pyrite Remediation Scheme — the State scheme that has rebuilt the floors of 2,851 pyrite-damaged homes since 2013 — stops accepting applications on 30 November 2026. The Pyrite Resolution Board has described this as the final opportunity to apply. If you own a home in one of the scheme areas, or you are buying one, the closing date changes your position more than any other property deadline this year. Here is what shuts, who can still get in, and what a buyer should do differently once the door closes.

Pyritic heave happens when the crushed-stone hardcore under a ground floor contains reactive pyrite: the stone swells as it oxidises, and the floor above it cracks, lifts and pushes walls out of square. The scheme, run by the Pyrite Resolution Board (PRB) with the Housing Agency, funds the full remediation — dig out the hardcore, replace it, reinstate the floor — at no cost to the homeowner.

The PRB set 30 November 2026 as the last day it will accept applications. An application received before the deadline stays in the pipeline and is assessed as normal; damage that only becomes claim-worthy after the deadline has no scheme to apply to. That asymmetry is the whole story: for eligible homes with borderline damage, the option to apply is itself worth protecting before it lapses.

Eligibility is unchanged by the deadline — what changes is that the clock now enforces it. The home must:

• Sit in a scheme area: the PRB's 2026 scheme covers parts of Dublin, Kildare, Limerick, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath (including all four Dublin local-authority areas and Limerick City & County).
• Date from the pyrite years: built between 1997–2013, when the affected quarries' hardcore was in circulation.
• Show qualifying damage: a Building Condition Assessment with a Damage Condition Rating of 2 — or, since the scheme was widened in 2026, a rating of 1 with evidence the damage is progressing (PRB / Department of Housing announcement, February 2026).

If cracked floors, doors that stopped closing or stepped cracking in the walls have you wondering, the sequence is: commission the Building Condition Assessment now, then apply before the deadline. An assessment that lands after 30 November 2026 is a report you cannot act on through the scheme.

For buyers in the scheme counties, the closing date splits every listing built 1997–2013 into three categories, and the questions differ for each:

Note what the deadline does not change: the Enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme — the separate scheme for defective concrete blocks (the “mica” crisis), with grants up to €462,000 — remains open, and its designated counties are different. Our mica and pyrite explainer walks through both schemes county by county.

The scheme designations are public and checking them costs nothing: our mica & pyrite pages cover every county — for example Dublin, Kildare and Meath — with the tri-state designation (designated, designated in part, or not) for both schemes. What no public list tells you is whether an individual house was assessed or remediated: that lives in the seller's documents, so use the area designation to decide how hard to push for them.