Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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In a lot of cases, however, these are self-built homes. People build their houses and order concrete to pour into the strip foundations and it comes from the same quarry and the same company that provided the blocks, which the engineers have now told them contain deleterious material. They tell them their houses need to be knocked down and rebuilt. Mr. Owens's response stretches credibility. He might not want to say it, but no engineer to whom I would speak privately would say he or she would build his or her house on foundations that came from the same company that provided the blocks. Hand on heart, I genuinely do not think any engineer in the country would say that if he or she were in that position, he or she would do that. The risk is too high. Is that not the case?