The government has come under pressure to remove the 'sliding scale' provision of the Mica redress scheme.

Sinn Féin representatives Pearse Doherty and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn voiced their concern at the provision, claiming it brings those impacted by Mica and Pyrite to well below the market cost to reconstruct their homes.

"That means homeowners will need to pay tens thousands of euro from their own pockets," they explained. "Ordinary workers and families in Donegal and elsewhere on the west coast do not have that kind of money, which is why the previous scheme fell apart.

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"The government needs to go back to the position that was articulated to families this morning and then pulled from under them - that there would be no 'sliding scale' provision.

"The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland calculator makes no mention of a sliding scale, so where this provision was plucked from we do not know.

"The Mica Action Group has made it very clear that the 'sliding scale' provision must go.

"We support them 100% in that stance."