Mica-affected homeowners protest in Dublin

Protesters assembled at the Convention Centre, where the Dáil was sitting, before marching to Leinster House. Mica affected home owners say the government need to act quicker to address 100% redress for crumbling homes in response to a working group that will take a 'fresh look' at the issue #mica @NeedforSpeed pic.twitter.com/soVhP0h1Si

Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien told RTÉ's Prime Time it could cost as much as €1.5 billion to remediate the affected homes. Mr O'Brien had earlier told the Dáil that the Government is committed to making changes to the mica redress scheme "to make sure this scheme works".Representatives of the homeowners said they would not accept anything less than a 100% redress scheme from the Government. They described the meeting with the minister as "constructive".

— Tommy Meskill June 15, 2021 We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Speaking on RTÉ's Six One News, Mr McConalogue said any decision to change the remediation scheme put in place in January 2020 will be given full consideration but before that, all the issues need to be identified.

Developers will be happy, govt blank cheques incoming, thank you tax payers

I am happy for my tax euros to help the people effected by mica. We need the government to step up and be accountable for their part in this fiasco! Just get on with it as the houses are already falling down! The families have been suffering for years! 100percentredress NOW!!

Housing planning applications very rarely pass on first attempt..Roof pitch wrong , window shape etc. Are standards of construction materials checked. Looks like a No. So minister time to amend, check more accurately builders materials. Any cracks in your house today MINISTER

Why is the Government (tax payer) liable? Surely the building supply company and its insurer should be footing the bill..

Govt gombeens abstaining in the vote therefore didn’t vote for it embarrassing ! Where’s Charlie McConalogue

When there is NO surge of Covid cases in 2 weeks time in Donegal, Mayo and Sligo how will CMOIreland DonnellyStephen explain this?

What companies provide the blocks? Who built the houses? Were they insured? If not why not?

Should TD be held personally accountable for bad law/regulation?

And the developers should pay it. Or is the c**t expecting. the people to pay for their mistakes, AGAIN.

Really...

Let's just say €2 billion.

Give Donegal back to the Brits. Between this and the Covid, the rest of the 25 counties are sick of them

Heres a couple of questions that I don’t see asked… who sold this rubbish ?… company names, company directors ? Then move onto why insurance companies have opted out ?… finally and importantly, how much VAT and stamp duty was collected on these homes ? No populist shite. 1/2

Maybe if they stop doing stuff like this, we could afford that bill.

redirect wasted monies, starting with €5.5 billion on ngos, whose only mission is to destroy social-cohesion and fabric of Ireland and its people.

Tragic for those affected & must be put right...but why levy this on tax payers who are struggling to pay for their own homes, paying property tax on those homes & bailed out banks. Those responsible continue to trade under new business names....were/are they not insured

So knowing the State it will probably end up closer to 6 billion..

Home bond. .....yea that.

So it'll be cheaper to rehome/ rebuild for *all* of the affected families than the estimated cost of the new children's hospital then? And e40bn less than the Anglo bail out. That sounds pretty reasonable.

Don’t worry - That money will simply be created into existence by the central bank like the rest of the money.

A lot less than they were happy and able to do, to bail out the bankers with a bottomless purse.

Insurance anyone? Nope

Good old Ireland, the land of no accountability

He couldn't give one straight answer on Prime Time.

'we are looking at it', he said it about 15 times in 3 mins for all the related issues. This pathetic administration has been 'looking at it' since FG and FFG came into power. 100% for Leinster, fuck everyone else. GE needs to be called.

Time to hold quarry owners past and present to account.

The banks were bailed out, the defects in the houses are not the peoples fault, time to do the right thing

Let them sue the builders. Any money paid by the state will be hoovered up by the same builders who created the disaster, making even more money Simple.

Taxpayers should not be left footing the entire bil!!!

Way cheaper than the National Broadband Plan I see.

Okay, that's a good enough incentive not to let developers get away with murder again. Carry on.

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