Mica

State wades in amid fresh row over ‘double standards’ in €3bn mica scheme

Donegal homeowners renew calls for increased funding to allow them to restore their homes to modern standards after learning social houses in the county will be fitted with modern insulation and heating

A mica-damaged home outside Newtown Cunningham in Co Donegal. The Department of Housing has insisted that the redress scheme terms for private homes and social housing are ‘exactly the same’. Picture: Joe Dunne