Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On Saturday, thousands of people joined demonstrations in Donegal and Mayo. They called on the Government to deliver a 100% redress scheme for those whose homes have been, and are being, destroyed by defective blocks containing mica and pyrite. This issue, as the Minister knows, also affects homeowners in County Clare. Under the existing scheme, some homeowners are having to pay the cost of up to 50% of the remediation, sometimes hundreds of thousands of euro. This is money the families concerned simply do not have. They were not responsible for the defects in the first place. These families should have been treated exactly the same as the families who availed of the original pyrite redress scheme, who got 100% of the cost of remediation. Will the Minister commit to reviewing the scheme urgently? Will the Government provide equality for the people in Mayo, Donegal and Clare by providing 100% redress for defects they did not create?

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