On Wednesday evening, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage confirmed it was making changes to the way the enhanced Defective Concrete Block (DCB) Scheme works for certain ...

Hundreds of defective concrete block homeowners gathered at a public meeting to send a clear message that the enhanced scheme is not working or offering 100% redress.

Over 100 defective concrete block homeowners in Donegal had their chartered engineers' recommendations of full demolition downgraded to lesser options of remediation.

Defective block scandal sees crushed Donegal voters with crumbling homes warn politicians ahead of election. Heartbroken families reveal that broken houses have left kids in broken homes in ...

Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty accused the Government of failing to pursue “wrongdoers” including quarries, builders and block manufacturers in the mica defective block scandal ...

Residents of a block in Belfast who were forced to leave over safety fears are to be refunded nearly five years of rates payments, following a minister’s intervention in their compensation case.