A government minister and senior council officials didn’t know who was responsible for quality checks on construction materials at the centre of the mica crisis – an issue on which the European Commission has begun legal proceedings against Ireland.
A senior garda claimed former Policing Authority chair Josephine Feehily used her ex-garda relative to secretly vet him for promotion.
We used to call them counterrevolutionaries. Some would’ve called them petty bourgeois. Now we call them centrist dads.
A woman is suing the former head of the Garda National Protective Services Bureau in the High Court over an alleged incident that happened while he was a serving garda.
The attorney general told Darragh O’Brien it may be legally and morally justifiable to require banks to contribute to the state mica scheme because of the benefits they receive.
He warned there would be ‘serious consequences from a public finance perspective’.
Attorney general Rossa Fanning admitted the state mica scheme “may be of limited value” to many homeowners with semi-detached properties.
Attorney general Rossa Fanning mediated an internal Fine Gael dispute over the controversial mica scheme after TD Joe McHugh resigned the party whip.
Mica homeowners have had redress applications downgraded to cheaper options on the recommendation of a state-appointed company linked to the chair of the state’s mica expert group.
In September 2021, months before government announced an adapted mica scheme, attorney general Paul Gallagher wrote to housing minister Darragh O’Brien with legal advice.
The attorney general warned the housing minister that mica-affected homeowners would put “tremendous pressure” on officials to get the best possible deal under the state redress scheme and that the council may not assess claims independently.
The attorney general told government it was “necessary” for homeowners applying to the state mica scheme to “understand” why they weren’t getting the same terms of a similar scheme offered to owners of defective homes in Dublin.