Mick Clifford: Excluding social housing bodies from remediation scheme is primitive

Excluding social housing bodies from home defects redress, and the reason for doing so, would be laughable if it weren’t so damaging, writes Special Correspondent Mick Clifford

Victims of the mica scandal protesting outside the Dáil in February. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

William Faulkner could have made a positive contribution to Darragh O’Brien’s working group on construction defects. The American writer’s most famous quote is: “The past is never dead, it’s not even past.”

And never a truer word has been uttered when it comes to cleaning up that past which we know as the Celtic Tiger years.