CAP / Schemes
TAMS costings 'in fantasy land' due to concrete cost and mica levy
Inflation in the cost of concrete, and the additional cost from the Defective Concrete Product Levy, are pushing costings under...
Mica
Rural Life
MEP: Proposed EPP changes will 'undermine' defective concrete report
MEP Luke Ming Flanagan has called on Fine Gael MEPs to ensure amendments tabled to a report on defective concrete...
Rural Life
MEP report on mica-impacted homes 'gives a lot of hope' - Ming
Thousands of Irish homeowners impacted by defective mica concrete have been “given a lot of hope” by the European Parliament...
Buildings
Government urged to abandon plan for concrete levy
A rural TD has called on the government to abandon plans for a concrete levy claiming that it would have...
Agri-Business
Calls for farms to be exempt from budget's 10% concrete levy
The announcement of capital allowances for the construction of slurry storage facilities and a 10% concrete levy in the same...
Rural Life
Report: Extension of mica redress to other counties 'appears inevitable'
The issue of defective mica blocks “may be far more widespread than feared”, according to a new report by an...
Rural Life
TD calls for 100% redress for mica impact
A TD is calling for the redress scheme for homeowners and farmers who have mica blocks in their homes and...
Agri-Business
McConalogue will look at mica impact on farmers, but 'homes are priority'
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has said the impact of mica on farm structures is “something...
Agri-Business
Mica march: communities unite in protest at redress scheme
A protest march is underway in Dublin city this afternoon, to highlight the plight of rural and urban homeowners impacted...
Rural Life
Mica map - farmers sought to highlight extent of problem
A web designer from Buncrana in Co. Donegal has created a ‘mica map’ with the aim of showing the extent...
Rural Life
'I had to knock it down because I was afraid of it' - Mica impact on Donegal pig farm
“My old service house for the sows – I had to knock it down because I was afraid of it,”...
Rural Life
Mica redress: 'My own house is going to be demolished' says INHFA council member
The Irish Natura & Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) is backing the call for a mica redress scheme that would deliver...