One teenager who is living in a home affected by mica says politicians 'just don't care' about her or her family's situation.
Rachel Kelly (12) from Co Donegal is protesting at the Fianna Fáil think-in in Co Cavan, along with her mother Josephine.
She is one of many homeowners, whose houses are crumbling because of mica, who gathered outside the event.
They want the Government to offer a 100% redress scheme for families impacted, as was the case for the pyrite redress scheme in the Leinster area.
The Government has offered to cover the cost of 90% of re-building costs, but many families say they cannot afford to bridge the gap.
Rachel told Newstalk the politicians would do more if their houses were affected.
"I think it's bad that the Government think it's just not important to fix people's houses.
"If their house was crumbling, there'd be a whole roar about it - but then other, normal people they just don't care.
"Every time I go into my room I have to put posters over the cracks, because at night I just wake up and I look at the cracks and I just don't like it".
Asked what she would say to the Taoiseach or Housing Minister, she replied: "A lot of things, and they wouldn't like any of it".
Her mother Josephine says they have been living with the problem for over 10 years.
"We discovered we had mica in 2010 and it was getting worse by the years, so we decided to fix our house in 2017.
"That was to replace the outer layer... so it has cost us €40,000, and four years later our house is cracking again inside and out.
"We're back to square one, we're in deep, dark debt - we can't afford to pay an engineer even to come out to get into this scheme as it stands."
She says living there is very stressful "because you have no security, you don't know when the day's coming that you're going to have to find somewhere else to live.
"You don't have the money to re-build, and you're constantly thinking about it - watching cracks and looking at them.
"You're not living, you're just going from day to day".
She believes they will be "lucky" to see another four or five years in the house before they have to move.
"After that we don't know where we're going to be - we don't have the money to rent, we don't have the money to build."
Reporting by: Kacey O'Riordan
