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Mica

Housing

Only two hours allotted to debate on €3.65bn mica blocks bill

Members of the Oireachtas housing committee had called on the government to allow a full hearing next week to debate a list of 80 amendments to the controversial legislation, but none has been scheduled
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 2, 2022
Housing

Living with mica: ‘It’s bulls**t about this being a full 100% redress grant, it’s just insulting’

Owners of crumbling homes say they cannot afford the repairs on their unsafe, leaking properties — and the government’s redress scheme designed to end the mica crisis is instead prolonging the trauma
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 1, 2022
Housing

‘Majority of homes damaged by defective blocks need to be knocked down’

Expert on concrete technology says if there are cracks in the walls ‘and at the same time you have internal sulphates discovered . . . you don’t have an option – you have to demolish’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 24, 2022
Legal

State’s plan to take money won in mica legal actions is ‘probably unconstitutional’, law firm warns

Coleman Legal has urged the government to ‘immediately’ withdraw a provision that means the state will take over legal actions taken by homeowners if they’re signed up to its redress scheme
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 23, 2022
Housing

Faulty blocks scheme ‘inflexible, cynical, illogical and blinkered’, mica campaigners claim

Homeowners told the housing committee the scheme will in reality be closer to an 80 per cent grant than the 100 per cent redress promised by the government
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 23, 2022
Housing

Mica homeowners will not be able to take legal action if they sign up to state’s redress scheme

The clause, contained in the general scheme of the mica bill, is likely to impact hundreds of homeowners who have signed up to a legal action
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 22, 2022
Housing

TDs to hold hearings on mica scheme as new bill to bypass regular scrutiny

Housing committee will hold public meetings next week but has agreed to the government’s request to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of the defective blocks bill
  • Donal MacNameeand
  • Daniel Murray
  • June 15, 2022
Housing

Cost of faulty block redress to rise by €500m as scheme to be extended to Limerick and Clare

Cabinet is expected to approve a plan to include two new counties in a scheme that currently only covers homes in Donegal and Mayo, in a move that could push the costs of the programme above €2.7bn
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 10, 2022
Mica

Donegal block manufacturer faces series of High Court cases over damaged bricks

At least eight homeowners have initiated High Court proceedings against Cassidy Brothers, as well as Donegal County Council and the National Standards Authority of Ireland
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 4, 2022

Government considering plan to bypass scrutiny on mica blocks bill

Department of Housing is keen to pass a bill to underpin the defective blocks scheme before the Dáil’s summer recess, but campaigners believe scrutiny is vital to make sure the legislation is satisfactory
  • Donal MacNamee
  • May 11, 2022
housing

All local authorities to be contacted over potential mica problems

Fears are growing that the defective building blocks problem, initially thought to be largely confined to the north-west, could be more widespread than imagined
  • Donal MacNamee
  • May 8, 2022

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
  • Donal MacNamee
  • April 30, 2022

Mica blocks problem may be far more widespread than feared

Unpublished report understood to admit that defective blocks are being found in counties that were not previously known about
  • Donal MacNamee
  • April 17, 2022

O’Brien faces internal pressure over fears new mica report could add €300m to cost of redress scheme

New report, which recommends higher costs for fixing mica houses, has been opposed by some senior civil servants
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 3, 2022

Cost of state’s mica scheme could rise significantly

New report recommends increase in grants homeowners can claim to rebuild their houses
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 3, 2022

Mica grants will only cover cost of fixing homes to pre-2007 building standards

Updated report on the costs of fixing mica-damaged homes will be worked out on basis of restoring houses to old building regulations
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 9, 2022

Donegal County Council halts mica redress payments due to problems with grant scheme

Council is seeking ‘clarification’ from the government over elements of the scheme and in the meantime has stopped confirming grant payments for mica homeowners
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 14, 2022

‘No justification’ to make building industry pay €800m towards mica scheme

Tom Parlon, director general of the Construction Industry Federation, said the organisation was exploring legal options if a new levy is introduced in the sector
  • Donal MacNamee
  • December 1, 2021

Michael Brennan: €2.2 billion mica scheme a significant commitment from the state

Compensation programme is not everything that campaigners wanted but is €800 million more than recommended by the mica working group several weeks ago
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 30, 2021

New mica scheme to be capped at €420k per home

Revised scheme likely to be agreed next week will come at a cost of €2.2bn to the taxpayer
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 26, 2021

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