Fine Gael Deputy Joe McHugh has warned the government to be vigilant over the details of a new Mica scheme.
A new scheme is due to be brought before the Cabinet in the next one-two weeks.
But accessibility and affordability will be key elements that must be watched closely, said Deputy Joe McHugh.
Speaking during Dáil Statements on Budget 2022, Deputy McHugh said: “Nobody is more disappointed than me and my colleagues in the previous Government that the 2010 scheme did not work. It did not work because once people started delving into the detail, it became an economic impossibility for so many families.
“My message is that whatever the detail, there must be vigilance. There will be much detail, whether it is more than 1,000 local authority houses and the innumerable individual private houses that will be in question, not just in County Donegal but throughout the country, for pyrite and mica. Whatever the detail is, we must be vigilant and we have to have a mechanism in place.”