{"id":182576,"date":"2025-12-09T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182576\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:17:07","slug":"watch-donegal-tds-christmas-nightmare-shows-defective-concrete-crisis-is-far-from-a-legacy-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182576\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Donegal TD&#8217;s Christmas nightmare shows defective concrete crisis is far from a &#8216;legacy issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video: <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj xzsf02u x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61574941845617&amp;__tn__=-UC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Ward TD<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donegal Deputy Charles Ward has slammed the government for labelling the defective concrete crisis a \u2018legacy issue\u2019 in the government\u2019s new housing plan.<\/p>\n<p>The housing plan, \u2018Delivering Homes, Building Communities\u2019, committed to addressing homes, duplexes and apartments that were built with defective materials and with structural flaws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddressing these legacy issues is a Government priority,\u201d said the plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment will continue to work with the owners and owner\u2019s management companies to resolve these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said: \u2018It is disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that there is so little mention of the Defective Concrete Crisis in this new housing plan, a crisis that impacts thousands of people across the country, yet only mentioned a handful of times, and worse, referred to as a \u201clegacy issue\u201d. This is far from a \u201clegacy issue\u201d. It\u2019s alive. It\u2019s present. It\u2019s persistent.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Donegal Deputy described how the crisis is a daily reality for his constituents in Donegal, and referred to his own experience last week when a happy moment of putting up Christmas lights at his house in Drumkeen was overshadowed by the dark reality of a crumbling home.<\/p>\n<p>While he was recording the event in the hope of capturing some Christmas cheer, he soon realised that the external leaf had collapsed into the cavity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said: \u201cThis is not a legacy issue, this is my daily life. And the daily life of many other families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have only seen the tip of the iceberg of this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 100% Redress TD stated: \u201cThis issue is far from past, it is not going away. It is here now, and it is waiting for us in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Donegal TD\u2019s Christmas nightmare shows defective concrete crisis is far from a \u2018legacy issue\u2019 was last modified:  December 8th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video: Charles Ward TD Donegal Deputy Charles Ward has slammed the government for labelling the defective concrete crisis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[99087,99088,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-182576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-100-redress-party","9":"tag-defective-concrete-crisis","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}