Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister knows, I live in the epicentre of the defective block crisis in County Donegal. I live in Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula. People's lives have been utterly destroyed. Hardly anybody my age who has built or bought a home or was living in a council home has not been devastated by the crisis. No matter where people live in Ireland, whether in Dublin and north Leinster in regard to the pyrite scheme, in communities in this city and throughout Ireland that have been affected by defects or a lack of oversight of the building industry and self-certification, self-regulation, no regulation or light-touch regulation, or in the west where there are victims of defective concrete blocks, although as many as 13 or 14 counties could be affected, the State must deliver 100% redress because these people have done nothing wrong. In good faith, these people engaged in the social contract, whereby you get an education or training, get a job, work hard and build a home, you put your trust in the professionals that your home will be tip-top, you pay your mortgage for however many years and you have a home when you are older. That contract was torn up. Deputy Ó Broin and I spent three hours today at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage discussing the issue of quarries and the lack of regulation. My message to the people in the Gallery is that no matter where they are from in Ireland, if they are victims of the utter failure of this State to regulate and hold these people to account, then they need 100% redress. It is as simple as that. That is natural justice. Everybody, no matter where they live, deserves that.

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