As the Tánaiste knows, I am living this experience so I can tell him at first hand what is happening on the ground. There is a humanitarian crisis in Mayo and a potential humanitarian crisis in Wexford and Limerick. Yesterday, a pyrrhotite issue emerged in Wexford. Geographically, we are at opposite ends of the country but we have the same problem. Within a mile of where I live, there are 200 houses currently affected. If the scheme happened in the morning, we would have absolutely nowhere for the people to go, and I am in a small area. In Deputy Doherty's area in west Donegal there were not that many people with defective homes two years ago but there are hundreds of them coming from the west and south of Donegal. The number is multiplying and we have absolutely nowhere for people to go. I am pleading with the Minister to look upon this as a humanitarian crisis and to please do something about these amendments. We have a humanitarian and homelessness crisis heading towards Donegal and the rest of the country.

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I will give the Tánaiste a quick example. Solomons Court in Letterkenny has 1,400 houses and every single one of them has defective concrete. Some 15 have been remediated. With some, that involved full demolition and with others, it was partial remediation. However, the majority of people there are stuck because they are in a town and if 500 of them want to go into this scheme and get on with their lives - they have been living this for the last 12 to 13 years - there is absolutely nowhere for them to go. We have to make provisions and realise this a humanitarian crisis. Large numbers of people are going to need to move. In Donegal, 25,000 will potentially have to move. Where are we going to house them? That is how serious this is.

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