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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

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State plans free legal aid for environmental cases; Eamon Ryan rebukes local councils

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Mica: Expert group warns more funding needed to better regulate concrete products

New audit published by the government, which has been delayed by months, says government needs to spend more on overseeing quarries

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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

Warning of ‘mica-style’ protests if owners of defective homes don’t get 100% redress

As many as 100,000 properties have issues which need to be repaired

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No role for RTB in short-term letting, new mica setback, Ryanair’s O’Leary slams Eamon Ryan – again

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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?

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Mica homeowners in new property tax row; DPC puts Twitter under the microscope

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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

Refund mechanisms to be built into new legislation to protect taxpayers’ money

Insurers used taxpayers’ money to subsidise costs when paying out for pandemic losses by deducting value of state supports such as wage schemes from awards

Mica homeowners lodge first claim in High Court

Donegal couple William and Grainne Doherty are the first homeowners to initiate proceedings as part of coordinated legal action over defective blocks

Department of Finance at odds with experts over cost of concrete levy on new homes

Government figures diverge significantly from estimates drawn up by expert groups on how much the controversial 5% tax will add to the cost of building houses

‘Paralysed’ mica scheme leaves Donegal families in unsafe homes, Housing Minister told

Impasse over how to deal with redress applications for homes affected by a damaging new material has left impacted homeowners feeling “utterly abandoned and ignored”, campaign group says

Builders say ‘blunt instrument’ concrete levy should still be resisted despite changes

Minister for Finance confirms levy to be reduced to 5 per cent and introduction will be delayed by five months

‘We’re getting nowhere’ – How red tape has left mica-hit Donegal homeowners in limbo

As officials row over a technical issue, residents have to live in crumbling houses threatening collapse at any moment

€70m concrete firm says mica levy could force it to cut hundreds of jobs

Cavan business O’Reilly Concrete fears it could lose 70 per cent of its 600-strong workforce if controversial 10 per cent levy is imposed next April

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

Just 14 homes in Donegal have been fixed through mica redress scheme

Figures follow a months-long standoff between Donegal County Council and government over how to process mica grants under scheme first opened in 2020