Construction Solicitor Donegal

Building disputes, defects claims and payment recovery for clients in Donegal — Mary Molloy Solicitors, established 1981.

No county carries the defective concrete blocks crisis like Donegal - thousands of homes cracking from mica-affected blockwork, the largest share of the national remediation effort, and now the 2025 Amendment Act's changes landing directly on Donegal applications. We act for affected owners through the scheme, its disputes, and the claims that survive around it.

Construction Law in Donegal

Donegal County Council administers the DCB Grant Scheme locally - applications, damage thresholds, remediation options and staged grants against the \u20ac462,000 cap - with the February 2026 commencement of the Amendment Act's increased-grant and 130-week works provisions reshaping live applications. Ordinary construction disputes proceed through the Donegal Circuit Court sittings alongside.

Our Donegal work is scheme-lifecycle work: first applications built on airtight technical files, remediation-option disputes and determination challenges (where our judicial review practice runs alongside - see judicialreviewsolicitor.ie), the new increased-grant pathway for capped owners, transactions in affected homes, and the honest assessment of any private claims that survive limitation and insolvency. The county's ordinary building disputes - one-off builds, renovations, trade payments - get the same national-practice treatment.

Mary Molloy Solicitors are solicitors, not engineers, architects or building surveyors. Nothing on this page is a technical assessment of any property or works. Defects claims stand or fall on independent expert evidence — a chartered engineer’s or building surveyor’s report — obtained early. Scheme rules, grant rates and legislation in this area change frequently; confirm the current position before making any decision.

How We Work With Donegal Clients

Building disputes run on documents, phone and email: the contract, the payment trail, the photographs and the expert report travel perfectly well, and you only ever travel if a hearing requires it. From our Dublin office (The Ormond Building, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7) and Kilkenny office (2 Rose Inn Street), we act for homeowners, self-builders, subcontractors and SME contractors in Donegal on defects claims, builder disputes, adjudication and payment recovery. Start with the Dispute Route Finder or call 01 5827148.

A Building Dispute in Donegal?

One call establishes your contract position, the evidence you need and the clock you are on. Call 01 5827148.

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Construction Law in Donegal - FAQs

The changes commenced in February 2026 land hardest where the crisis is largest: qualifying owners who exhausted earlier grant limits can apply for increased grants against the €462,000 cap and updated rates; the works completion window doubles to 130 weeks (with a tightened 2-week extension-application window); and conjoined-dwelling and enforcement provisions arrive on phased commencement. For capped Donegal owners, the increased-grant pathway is the immediate item to assess.