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State to make emergency accommodation costs available to worst-hit mica families

Department of Housing to give homeowners in worst situations access to €15k, following Business Post report on families in houses severely damaged by defective blocks

Mica: Council seeks meeting with Minister as pressure grows over worst-impacted homes

Donegal County Council has written to Darragh O’Brien, the Housing Minister, about the ‘seriousness’ of the situation for some homeowners in homes severely damaged by defective concrete blocks

Hundreds of mica homeowners forced to wait until next year for redress grant eligibility

Donegal County Council tells 400 impacted homeowners application for redress won’t be processed until January

‘There's days I phone my daughter and cry’: Worst mica-hit families face an unsafe winter

The government has been warned that 10 families in homes built by hazardous blocks need to move for their safety. But can anything be done to get them into emergency accommodation?

Mica homeowners have exemptions to property tax ‘removed’

Revenue has told some homeowners they have to pay the LPT because they haven’t been admitted onto the scheme yet, as hundreds wait on Donegal County Council to deal with a major backlog of applications

Row between officials further delays mica redress for Donegal homeowners

A new letter shows the government urged the council to speed up its decision-making on mica applications, but refused to provide guidance on how to deal with houses affected by a damaging new material

Campaign targeting diaspora in bid to attract remote workers to Donegal

County has grown in prominence as a viable location for remote working over the last two years thanks to its coastal beauty and its increasing connectivity

Hundreds of mica homeowners in limbo as government at odds with Donegal County Council

Almost 400 applications for the mica redress scheme are stalled because a recently discovered material is not covered leading to significant disagreement between the council and the government

State has paid just €400k to Donegal homeowners under mica redress scheme

Only 14 homeowners have progressed through the three-step grant programme to the point where they have received funds to pay for reconstructive works on their mica-damaged homes

Builders ‘discouraged’ from mica jobs in Donegal over delayed payment fears

Although contractors are ultimately paid in full for their work by Donegal County Council, they are concerned there could be long delays

Mica redress talks in jeopardy after state does not back 100% compensation

Working group chaired by the government is set to miss target of delivering recommendations on defective blocks scheme this week

Only one in 15 Mica redress scheme applicants told of their entitlements

Of 475 peopple who applied to the government structural damage scheme, just 30 have found out how much they will receive

The mica crisis: ‘We’re going to end up with a Miami incident in Ireland’

Use of the defective construction material mica has wreaked havoc in homes in the north-west of the country, with some 7,000 houses potentially awaiting full demolition as a result. Affected homeowners want answers and action from the government, and they want it fast