The defective concrete products scandals have destroyed so many lives across Ireland.

The Taoiseach's Government recently extended the pyrite remediation scheme. Almost 3,000 families in Dublin and Leinster have rightly received 100% redress. The State will take responsibility for the remediation of their homes directly. It is a very different scheme in Donegal, Mayo and the west of Ireland. Why are our people in the west of Ireland second-class citizens? Why does the Government insist on a scheme that leaves people with huge gaps between what it will provide for them and what builders will charge? Why has it introduced amendments to legislation which are minimalist and a huge disappointment? I appeal to the Taoiseach. We have had many exchanges back and forth. Please urgently listen to us in Donegal, Mayo and the west of Ireland. Treat us as equal citizens. Give us a scheme the same as a pyrite remediation scheme.

No one is being treated as a second-class citizen. Enormous resources have been committed and are currently being spent on the remediation scheme in Donegal, Mayo and elsewhere. That will continue. The legislation in relation to all of this is imminent.