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

Like all candidates, we are knocking on doors across County Donegal and the Taoiseach should trust me when I say there are huge numbers of families who cannot avail of the defective blocks scheme. They just cannot afford it. They are tens of thousands of euro and, in some cases, over €100,000 short. That is the reality of the scheme. I appeal to the Taoiseach in this election campaign to have a look at the position of his party. Fianna Fáil will speak for itself. We need to have a scheme similar to what Dublin and north Leinster got for pyrite. There people got 100% redress and were able to get on with their lives. I ask the Taoiseach to please trust me when I tell him most families who are eligible for the scheme in Donegal cannot avail of it because they cannot afford to. I am asking him to urgently review this and take an approach that means no matter where people live, if they are victims, they get 100% redress.

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