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The 100% Redress Party walked out of the council meeting over the failure of the housing minister to visit Donegal
Members of the 100% Redress Party have walked out of a county council meeting over “a lack of action” on housing issues in the county.
The party’s four councillors staged the walkout during a special plenary meeting on housing on Monday morning as members were about to hear presentations from the council's housing section.
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After being told by Cathaoirleach Niamh Kennedy in response to his question that she was not aware of a planned visit by the housing minister, Cllr Tomas Sean Devine said the party is “sick and tired of sitting here month after month chatting about housing - nothing being done”.
Announcing that the party was leaving the meeting, Cllr Devine said: “It‘s a shambles. I don’t believe the council is putting enough push on the Government…”
He said the party “didn't come in here to be penpals sending emails and letters to Government that they don’t even answer anymore”.
In a statement, the party said the walkout was over the “ongoing failure of Housing Minister James Browne TD to visit Donegal and witness first hand the devastation caused by the defective concrete crisis”.
“We are sick and tired of sitting here month after month, while the biggest housing and humanitarian crisis in Europe is blatantly being ignored by the Housing Minister,” Cllr Devine added.
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“The people who voted for the 100% Redress Party wanted us to send a strong message to the Government and that is exactly what we are trying to do. But we also need the Government party councillors to start standing up for Donegal. It’s time they demanded that their elected ministers put Donegal on the agenda.”
Supporting the councillors’ protest, 100% Redress Party TD Charles Ward: “The meeting with the minister has been promised for months but has come to nothing. People in Donegal deserve better than broken promises.
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