The Government is being urged to take the European Parliament's recommendations on board when it comes to dealing with defective blocks
The Government is being urged to take the European Parliament's recommendations on board when it comes to dealing with defective blocksA man who moved his family into a mobile home due to the effects of mica on their house has said it was a 'heartbreaking' decision.This week MEPs published a report calling on the State to improve the Enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme and provide 100% redress for those affected.
"I do fear that there's a massive tragedy waiting to happen because of people that's in the same circumstances as myself.Well that's it folks, 12 years of living in our family home comes to an end tonight. We worked hard and saved hard to build a dream, but unfortunately it's been shattered to pieces by poor regulation and greed"Whenever you haven't got that money then you have to take a chance of staying in until there's a scheme that's fit for purpose."I was welling up last night and I had tears in my eyes," he said."My father's passed away four years and he plastered the cornerstones of my house - that's gone.
"That means the new house will be done and there'll not be one memory of my father having anything to do with the house".Creeslough families ‘devastated’ at plans for new service station on tragic site
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