Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have been in construction all my life and everything I do has to be certified. Quarries supplied materials to these people that was certified. There is amount of quarries that have pyrite on them that are owned by massive international companies that own 30 or 40 quarries in this country and they are responsible for pyrite and mica in this country.

Pyrite is in Clare. It is in Limerick. At present, I have cases in Limerick with pyrite and they are only being investigated now.

People should not have to pay one penny in Limerick. They bought their houses. They paid for their houses. They paid for their material. All the instruction was there given by Government on what they had to get certified. The buck stops with the supplier of the material that caused this for houseowners and the buck stops with the Government. Certify everything and you are covered.

They should not have to pay one penny. They have paid their mortgages, they have paid the interest on their mortgages and this country has bailed out the banks. The banks certified the houses. Now the banks should put them back exactly the way they were and compensate, with the Government and the quarries that gave the material to build these houses.

We can see there is a problem with supply and demand for housing in this country at present. Fix this and do not let one Limerick person or anyone else in this country pay a dime towards the Government's mistakes.

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