Mac Lochlainn wants same 100% redress for Donegal as afforded to 3,000 pyrite families in Dublin

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00:00Tonisha, you described the defective block concrete scheme as the biggest

00:05redress scheme in the history of the state and gave the impression to people

00:09around the state that everybody would be sorted. I can tell you, and you know this,

00:13that most families in Donegal, I can speak with authority with that, cannot

00:18access the scheme because they'll have to find between 50,000 and 150,000 euro

00:23to veil of the scheme. There's been packed rooms and public meetings, two in

00:28Donegal, one in Mayo. The scheme isn't working. Will you now ensure that like

00:33what happened for Pyrite, for over 3,000 families in Dublin and North Leinster

00:38who got 100% redress, will you now deliver a scheme that's genuine 100%

00:44redress for families in Donegal, Mayo, Sligo and right down the west of Ireland?

00:48Thank you, Deputy. I have to say, it is a huge scheme and the allocation that has been

00:54committed to this by government is enormous. That's just a fact. I'm not

00:59giving impressions that the scale of this is such and I do understand fully

01:03the plight of many, many householders whose houses essentially, first of all,

01:09quite a number of uninhabitable and real distress caused and anxiety causes as a

01:14result of the mica. But there's been a number of refinements. I mean the

01:23scheme has replaced the scheme that you would have earlier supported, the first

01:26scheme. The scheme is significantly better than that scheme. My understanding

01:31is a lot of people are now applying to the scheme, are

01:33participants in the scheme and are getting their houses refurbished. I ask

01:39the Minister of Housing again for an update in respect of you raising the

01:42question today.