Mica Redress

Seems government is considering increasing the amount to 400k as well as introducing some kind of levy to cover the costs.

400k is far too much, I know there is demolition costs but the land is already there, services are in place, there is potential for kitchen/windows/bathroom to be reused. I have sympathy for those involved but there needs to be reasonable limits put in place if everyone else is picking up the bill.

The house is being built for free minus a few grand for survey costs. Let's be clear ...

I'm intrigued of someone who seems to indicate they have all the facts.

Was it 5 grand ? For 200k rebuild or what specifically are we talking costs wise.

I suspect that €400k limit will be a political one, and that while in theory demo and rebuild will be an option, it will be a difficult threshold to achieve. It also looks like government are going to take this back to central control via the housing agency to keep cost under control.

Otherwise this is a 10bn+ scheme. One would hope government wouldn't be so reckless.

There is no beauty to these levies. All they'll do is make development more expensive. Such a levy would I would forecast to add somewhere between 3 and 5k to the average home.

Everyone cares about Levy's. This is utter waffle..

A nation governed by gombeens, nothing ever changes. They make an arse of it and Joe Taxpayer picks up the tab and every one actually responsible (civil servants and politicians get a promotion and ride off scott free.....)

Bank bailouts, Mica, Pyrite, Voting Machines, The Children's Hospital, Dail Printers, PMPA, Insurance Bailouts, Irish Water, Eircom, Priory Hall and a zillion other botched celtic tiger developments, endless tribunals, the housing crisis, a zillion HSE failures, the Tram that didn't meet in the middle so lets build another line to fix the cockup........I could go on and on and on....

Father Ted & Dougal Maguire is the most accurate way to describe our political classes and the senior civil servants in Ireland just less funny......they just seem incapable of doing basic things that governments need to do like regulation without making an arse of it.

Just get out your cheque book folks, pay the Mica bill and stop moaning, part of living in Ireland. 400k a house will equal several billion but hey we can afford it just look at the children's hospital fiasco. Could end up costing 2.4 billion putting it up there as one of the most expensive buildings ever....wtc rebuild cost 3.8 billion just to give you some idea of how rich we must be to be able to spend 2.4 billion on a medium sized hospital....so what is another few billion on Mica.......sure we are loaded.....

Just whack a couple of percent on USC and will all be grand.

Note sure people want to think it through....just rant on about 400k being a ridiculous amount.......

In fact in many cases I think factoring in mortgage/cash debt already paid, demolition costs, temp accommodation costs and rebuild costs you will doing well to keep it under 400k.

Rant v reality.

Absolute nonsense. Whatever amount it takes.

And il be making sure my TD knows. I'm sick of this open check book crap that's been pushed on the taxpayer. Absolutely no idea where there's valuations are coming from and you've already had to gall to say that folks impacted shouldn't have to pay anything to prove their house is impacted.

Bizarre.

Why don't you write to your TD and ask them to explain why the government failed to regulate the construction industry........

You seem to have absolutely no understanding of what is going on here. People's houses are literally crumbling around them due to governmental incompetence and you are getting all hot under the collar about paying up. You will be paying and paying loads and so will every other Taxpayer in Ireland for years to come. It will be billions of euros and right up there with the many cluster fcuk ups in recent years be it the children's hospital etc etc.

Frustrated well, join the club but please stop trying to scapegoat some ordinary families in an awful situation. Even if financially a family recovers much or all of their outlay they will have still suffered years of stress and worry due to the blitheringly incompetent politicians and civil servants who have failed for decades to regulate properly.