Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

As the Chief Whip will be aware, every Thursday at the Business Committee in recent weeks, I have raised the issue of the defective concrete blocks scheme. Last October, the Government confirmed it was going to increase the cap by 10%. Families are tens of thousands of euro short of 100% redress. This cap must be available to everybody undertaking this scheme, not just new entrants.

That amendment was promised late last year and we are now here, coming into June, and there is no sign of the amendment. I am urgently asking that the amendment be brought in and to get that money to those families who desperately need it.

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