Following this week’s visit by the Housing Minister James Browne, Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn says that while he promised much, he provided no answers why Donegal Mica homeowners have been left waiting for remediation for a decade. Apart from the foot-dragging on the general election promise of a 10% increase on the remediation cap of €420,000, Padraig MacLochlainn says this situation is now intolerable in the light of Wednesday morning’s statement in the Dail by Junior Housing Minister, Tom O’Donnell indicating that a number of other technical issues have been identified. Deputy Mac Lochlainn also said: “It is believed there are two thousand Council houses in need of rebuilding. There is an estimate of a cost liability of more than €200m, yet the government is not in a position to offer a shred of guidance for when all these projects are put into a time frame. Where is that funding coming from or will families have to wait forever for answers?”
