Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach may have seen videos on social media in the past fortnight showing the demolition of a family home in Newtown Cunningham as part of the existing defective block scheme. The family have had to move their children to a new school due to the inability to source rental accommodation in their own community. They are still paying a full mortgage on what is now a pile of rubble. They are also paying rent. They sent me an email with an engineer's breakdown of costs and the costs recovered under the defective blocks scheme. They already have a deficit of €19,000 on the first €50,000 of works. That is less than 70% cost recovery. So much for 100% redress. Despite the Government's chatter, the new scheme will not provide much more relief for this family. From what we can see, the trips that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister took to Donegal were nothing more than hollow PR stunts. They failed to listen and are, therefore, bound to fail. My constituents will continue to suffer. We are sick telling the Government that the old and new schemes will not work as presently set up. When will the Taoiseach and the Government wake up to that fact?

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