MICA Action Group Mica Action Group (MAG) is a Donegal based, volunteer led organisation campaigning for 100% Redress for those affected by defective concrete homes & buildings.
The issue of cracking walls in Donegal homes got its first airing on national television when Áine Ní Bhreisleain of Nuacht ,TG4 interviewed Karl Murtagh, a homeowner with severe cracking problems in the walls of his residence . This was followed by an interview as Gaelige, with Brigid Mc Gonagle, joint secretary of the Mica […]
After coverage of the issue of crumbling houses in the local Donegal broadcast, print and digital media in the latter half of September, the national media is now at last starting to take notice. Valerie Cox, an investigative reporter on RTE Radio 1’s “Today With Seán O’Rourke” programme visited Donegal to look at the problem […]
In the wake of former Minister Hogan’s response to a Parliamentary Question where he indicated that the Dapartment had a lack of evidence in relation to cracking in Donegal homes, the MAG have taken the brave step for an unfunded voluntary group of beginning to register persons who have structural defects in their houses caused […]
On 27th May 2014, Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn, TD, Sinn Féin asked Minister of the Environment, Deputy Phil Hogan, TD, a Parliamentary Question relating to the on-going structural problems in their dwellings faced by homeowners in Donegal. In his reply the Minister insisted that homeowners could among other things seek redress through the courts. Cllr. Albert […]
Through the good offices of Deputy Joe McHugh, TD, Fine Gael, a meeting was set up on 8th May 2014 with the Pyrite Resolution Board (PRB) in Dublin. Two members of the Mica Action Group attended along with representatives of Donegal County Council (DCC), the Housing Agency, the Chairman of the PRB, Mr. Noel Carroll […]
3 members of the group made a presentation to the final meeting of the present Council before Election 2014. The “Donegal News” carried the story.