I was in the City Center at the time of the protest today and honestly, had it not been for this thread I wouldn’t have known there was a protest at all!!
Or, without 100% they would have to pay rent and a mortgage at the same time while waiting for their houses to be rebuilt. How many people here could afford to rent a house and pay a mortgage at the same time.
Protest had no impact on the majority of people in Dublin. And if you want popular support from people in the counties that are net contributors to the budget, disrupting those is not the way to do it anyway.
Indeed.
You could make an argument that national government has some say in setting overall standards etc. so they are probably not "blameless" but this seems more like laxity on the part of the local authority, builders and mortgage providers.
Donegal people are sure hard to listen to when they're giving out. And who is this 'Wayne' they are all worried about?
It may be 10% of the rent, mortgage would be being paid anyway for those who actually still had one, and i imagine the rent if even required would be pretty low
I can not understand why the taxpayer should have to pay for the restoration of 4000 sg foot mansions.
Those affected should go on the council housing list.
Of course Sinn Fein are in there again throwing tax payers money at every problem. They must be terrified they might geet in to governent some day and have to deliver on their huge promises.
People getting extensions to their houses will often have to rent somewhere for the months the renovation is being carried out.
Sinn Fein want taxpayers to pay for private mansions in Donegal.
Interesting development.
Did I see 3bn set aside in Sinn Feins alternative budget for MICA redress?
Sure they all have mansions in Donegal themselves.
Can't they go after the builders and suppliers? Nobody insured? The government should make someone pay up, don't think it should be the tax payer.
😂By choice, because they have the money.
They could just act like they never made them. Worked for the current shower.
I love how RTE have swatted this "protest" aside, it's driving the MICA lads wild. Go onto rte.ie and you have to scroll way down to see a mention of it.
Ronan Keating has higher billing on the RTE website 😆
5000 houses needing demolished or worked on....there will be no houses to rent available never mind at low rent
To be fair it's on the Late Late Show later.
Donegal have the 13th biggest houses on average in Ireland. Hardly mansions....
and if 5000 families go on the social housing list how much would that cost to house?
these people just want the houses that they paid for with their hard earned money rebuilt as they are falling down due to no fault of their own. They don’t want to go on the social housing list.
I see a load of new posters with their 'mansions' have joined the thread.
At least they are leaving out the Mc at the start.
Why isn't it relevant? If you had a building inspector oversee the building, then at least there is professional recourse to go after, if a waiver was signed, recourse will be much harder.
Any reason why the question wasn't answered?
You must not have been at the same part of the city then, or else you need to go to Specsavers if you can't see 10,000 people.
They were top story all day on the news website. 10:30pm and now it’s 4th story, on the late late show tonight too....hardly swatted aside
It isn’t relevant because at the time of the build the blocks were fine because the Mica had not weakened the blocks. It took a few years for the mica to show its effects. An inspector could never have seen any issues in the blocks.
It's entirely relevant if building inspectors weren't used to sign off on the building if redress is being seeked. If an inspector wasn't involved then the homeowner took on the risk of building defects themselves and will have signed a waiver to that effect. If that waiver is recorded it makes their seeking redress harder so they probably won't want to answer that question because they're hiding the true facts of the situation.
It is interesting to see how defensive you immediately got about it.
The reason this legislation was brought in was to handle issues with blocks, specifically pyrite, but it could also have prevented blocks with excess mica, if they were engaged on the build of course.
So if it was a company from Dublin that did this then you would have no problem with the redress scheme?
catch a hold of yourself. Don’t forget that the bankers were Irish, people from across the land that bankrupt us to a cost of 64 billion and they got fully bailed out.
Hilarious
How could an inspector have seen that there were issues with the blocks at the time of the build?
How about answering my question first :)
I’m not getting defensive, thankfully I don’t have Mica. But it’s a ridiculous comment that you and many people are coming out with. An engineer, inspector, architect or any other person could not see any issues in the blocks during the build because at the time of the build they were fine as the mica had not deteriorated the blocks.
these people bought 7.5 or 10 newton blocks at the time of the build and concrete strength should not deteriorate over time. Some of these blocks are now testing at under 1 Newton now.
Two possible ways in which the inspector could have covered their own arse and of course the customers would be to send some materials samples for testing or much more basically by ensuring that only suppliers with adequate insurance were used.
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