This video highlights, what can only be described, as a SCANDAL.

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Cllr Nicholas Crossan with Greg Hughes on the Nine til Noon Highland Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafhvugci2s&t=1850s

Proposed Material Alterations to the Draft County Donegal Development Plan 2024-2030
https://www.donegalcoco.ie/ProposedMaterialAlterations2024/ProposedMaterialAlterationstotheDraftCDP2024.pdf

Complete index to the Science and Societal Impacts of Defective Concrete Conference, Letterkenny, Donegal, 2022-11-15
https://backstory.ie/dcb_conference.html

Academic paper: The “mica crisis” in Donegal, Ireland – A case of internal sulfate attack?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008884623000613

Prime Time report on mica from 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3S9St_vOM

Northern & Western Regional Assembly
https://www.nwra.ie

National Planning Framework
https://www.npf.ie

An announcement of Planning and Development Bill 2023 at the Department of Housing website
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/833dd-planning-and-development-bill-2023-is-published

The web page from Oireachtas.ie showing the history of this bill in the Dáil
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2023/81

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NWRA's Submission
https://consult.donegal.ie/en/system/files/materials/419/767/NWRA%20Submission%20to%20Draft%20Donegal%20County%20Development%20Plan.%20Email%20attachment.13.10.23.pdf

Report from the Working Group on the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme 2021-09-30
https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/200490/e586d7f3-f6d9-4c4b-9f4e-555289b3742d.pdf

At 42m40s you will find the interview with Cllr Martin McDermott where he says 10,000 homes are affected in Inishowen alone
https://upsetinconcrete.backstory.ie/e/5-donegal-county-councillors-protest-outside-the-dail/

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Your Questions Answered - Enhanced Grant Scheme for the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks in their Construction June 2023
https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/262462/d25a601a-d07d-4b67-aef1-680e51baa2e6.pdf

‘We need you here’ – Simon Harris plans €750,000 campaign to bring builders home to help solve housing crisis - Independent.ie
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/we-need-you-here-simon-harris-plans-750000-campaign-to-bring-builders-home-to-help-solve-housing-crisis/a397155572.html

Peoples' Document Meeting 2024-03-04 in the An Grianan Hotel, Burt, Donegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocJO5Q35hm0

County Donegal Chief Executive's Report
https://www.donegalcoco.ie/cereportdraftcdp/cereportdraftcdp2024-2030.pdf

Here are the proposed material alterations (important changes) to the County Development Plan that you can still influence until the 5th April 2024.
https://www.donegalcoco.ie/ProposedMaterialAlterations2024/ProposedMaterialAlterationstotheDraftCDP2024.pdf

Here is a link to point in the official DCC video where *temporary accommodation" was ignored.

https://donegalcoco.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/852710/start_time/2861000?force_language_code=en_GB

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