Two quarries sold pyrite blocks in Clare – Oireachtas sitting hears
ONE OF THE COUNTRY’s biggest construction companies has been named as the one of the suppliers of defective concrete blocks in Clare.
ONE OF THE COUNTRY’s biggest construction companies has been named as the one of the suppliers of defective concrete blocks in Clare.
*Clare TD, Joe Carey (FG) with Mary Hanley & Brid Devanney of the Clare Pyrite Action Group on Kildare St. PRE-LEGISLATIVE SCRUTINY is essential before further progress is made on the Defective Concrete Block Scheme, a Clare TD has stressed.
*Brid Devanney, Danny Maloney, Martina Cleary & Mary Hanley. MEMBERS OF THE CLARE PYRITE ACTION GROUP remain “in the dark” on the detail surrounding their inclusion in a defective concrete blocks redress scheme.
*Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien (FF) is shown the damage to Mary Hanley’s home in Drumline last August. Photograph: Joe Buckley CO CLARE has been included an expanded Defective Concrete Block Scheme.
*Mary Hanley shows the damage to her home in Drumline, Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley “IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE” of widespread pyrite in Co Clare has been detailed in a new report.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE IS suspected to be one of the worst affected counties in the country when it comes to pyrite.
CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL continued to try secure €8m in Government funding to advance a maritime training centre for a building in Kilrush without testing it for pyrite despite it showing signs of cracking.
*The home of Michelle and Steve Mansfield is among the worst affected in Clare. Photograph: Joe Buckley FRESH HURLDES have been thrown in the way of homeowners impacted by the presence of mica and pyrite.
*Dr Martina Cleary. Photograph: Joe Buckley CLARE PYRITE ACTION GROUP are to consider fielding a candidate in the next General Election.
BETWEEN 200 TO 300 Clare people protested along the streets of Ennis on Saturday as efforts to gain access to a defective blocks scheme intensifies for affected homeowners.