*Dr Martina Cleary. REGULATIONS that will lead to the approval of redress for pyrite-impacted homeowners in Clare have been signed off on by the Minister for Housing while the companies responsible for selling defective concrete blocks must now be pursued according to activists and politicians.
*Mary Hanley points to the damage caused by pyrite to her home in Drumline to Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien. Photograph: Joe Buckley AN ENHANCED grant scheme for defective concrete blocks is to open to affected homeowners in the first quarter of next year.
*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.
*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.
*Veronica Griffin pointing to the cracking along the walls of her family home in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley PYRITE’s presence in Clare has been proven “beyond reasonable doubt”, senior officials in the local authority have stated while confirming they are pushing to have the county included in the revised redress scheme with “immediate effect”.
*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.
OFFICIALS in the Department of Housing have said it will be able to recommend to the Government an extension of the defective concrete block scheme to Co Clare if latest samples show a link to damage between the blocks and homes tested.
*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.
Fianna Fáil TD for Clare Cathal Crowe has welcomed a Department of Education report which has confirmed that no traces of pyrite have been detected in the walls of St Patrick’s Comprehensive, Shannon. Following a visit to the school last year, Deputy Crowe raised concerns with the Education Minister over the state of the building, …
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