Constituents of mine who live in Rush, Lusk, Skerries and Ballyboghil will welcome this news. The Minister referred to 39 dwellings, but I would say 39 families. Those families have been to hell and back while their homes have crumbled down around their ears. They did nothing wrong. The Minister was full of praise for the local authorities, and that is fair enough, but there should be some recognition of the people who are impacted today and who will be joining the scheme, defective and all as it is if we forgive the pun, did nothing wrong. That is why the State is paying. It is not out of the goodness of the Minister's heart or because he has some notion of public service; it is because the State failed to regulate, and because of this these people are deserving of compensation. The scheme must be 100% because that is what people need and deserve. When will my constituents see money from this scheme, because that is what they need?

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