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.
*Joe O’Donnell questions Minister Darragh O’Brien. Photograph: Joe Buckley HOMEOWNERS in Clare are to protest through the town of Ennis this Saturday.
CONTINUED inclusion of Clare from a remediation scheme for pyrite and mica affected homeowners equates to a “a definite, perpetuated and undeniable form of discrimination”.
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*Cracks running along the walls of a home impacted by pyrite in Clare. Photograph: Joe Buckley ENNIS based, Cllr Mary Howard (FG) has become the first Clare politician to call on the Minister for Housing to carry out an investigation to ascertain how defective concrete blocks containing pyrite and mica were used to construct homes …
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING officials took over a month to put concerns in writing regarding Clare’s application to be included in a defective concrete block redress scheme.
HOMEOWNERS impacted by the presence of defective concrete blocks are becoming increasingly frustrated as they remain left out in the cold of a redress scheme.
*Seamus & Mary Hanley show the extent of the pyrite damage to their home. Photograph: Joe Buckley ANSWERS will be sought from Clare’s Oireachtas members this Friday as homeowners in the county face the prospect of missing out on a pyrite/mica redress scheme.
“POLITICAL FOOTBALLING” must end when it comes to the defective concrete block grant scheme, a Clare TD has said.
Mary Hanley speaking with fellow members of the Clare Pyrite Action Group. Photograph: Natasha Barton Targeting manufacturers responsible for the selling of defective concrete blocks leading to the cracking and crumbling of hundreds of homes in Co Clare must wait until agreements are reached on redress, senior politicians in the county have said.
