Government accused of locking people out of Mica Redress Scheme

The Government has been accused of locking people out of the Defective Concrete Blocks Scheme. It comes following the publication of two articles on the Ditch website this week which claims that the attorney general in private correspondence on government's mica scheme suggested measures to reduce the number of applicants. It's also alleged that the Attorney general advised that the government scheme to compensate those affected by the mica crisis would “lead to significant abuses” from homeowners applying. Speaking in the Dail, Donegal Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty says the advice was clearly aimed at keeping people out of the scheme: