Irish Examiner view: Government between a rock and a hard place in mica redress scheme

It is widely recognised that a Government-tabled proposal for a €20m remediation scheme is insufficient to meet the needs

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien does not have much wriggle room in dealing with the mica building material crisis.

Whichever way you look at it, the Government is between a rock and a hard place in forming its responses to the mica building materials crisis which has affected significant parts of rural island in Donegal and Mayo.

Many hundreds of families and thousands of people are in dire straits as the main financial investment in their lives crumbles and cracks around them because homes were built some 20 years ago with blocks containing high levels of mica.