Defective block homeowner representatives have handed in a document to government officials this morning detailing essential requirements that must be fulfilled by government to enable people blighted with crumbling mica and pyrite homes to be able to plan a way forward to reclaim their houses and their lives.
Vital cornerstones are 100 per cent redress, a 40-year state backed guarantee for partial remediation and that all affected homeowners should be included in the scheme.
The document is the homeowners’ representative’s response to discussions with government officials that have been taking place since July. The working group was put in place following a protest of thousands of defective block homeowners from the West of Ireland descended to the streets of Dublin on June 15, 2021 to communicate to government that the current redress scheme was unfit for purpose and did not offer them a way out of a hugely stressful and distressing situation.
Michael Doherty, PRO and a spokesperson for the Mica Action Group said: “This document represents a culmination of many weeks of detailed discussions and research to ensure that we are providing an accurate picture of the issues experienced by homeowners in many different circumstances and what is realistically required for them to escape this nightmare.
“We have been campaigning on this issue for almost a decade, successive governments have played down its seriousness and scale, we have had politicians make promises only to break them and then in 2020 were presented with a redress scheme which in its final form was unfit for purpose and was devised without consultation with homeowners. We are hoping that government treats this document with the respect and gravity it deserves and delivers the requirements with the urgency that desperate homeowners need.
“People’s homes have effectively been stolen from them by successive government’s failure to enforce proper regulations in the construction industry. Homeowners should not have to pay the price of government incompetence with unrelenting anxiety about safety, finances, the distress of seeing their home demolished and future homelessness. The government has the power to end this now, and the power to put in place meaningful governance to avoid another chapter of homeowners suffering needlessly.”
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