The Donegal Mica Action Group has announced its intention to set up a political party and run in the next general election.
PRO Michael Doherty said that the group had already been in contact with the Oireachtas and will be filling out the forms over the coming days.
He said homeowners had had enough and while they believed the Opposition was doing its best but "it's geared to fail because of the system".
Mr Doherty said the joint statement issued last week by groups in a number of counties affected by defective blocks, stated clearly that if they could not make it work from outside then "they will have to make it happen from within and that's the position we have arrived at".
Mr Doherty said that the 80 amendments put forward to the Defective Blocks Scheme, which is before the Dáil today, need to be included in order to make it a workable scheme.
Homeowners have expressed extreme disappointment that a vote to extend the amount of time allowed to discuss the bill from two hours to six was defeated and that two Donegal TDs Charlie McConalogue and Joe McHugh were not in attendance for the vote.
Donegal Mica Action say the Bill before the Dáil is not fit for purpose; it does not give homeowners 100% redress, excludes numerous properties including holiday homes and is fatally flawed in many aspects including the failure to allow for the testing of foundations.
They say it simply does not make sense to rebuild on suspect foundations and the Government is ignoring the science around this and the presence of other deleterious minerals which are not included in the Bill.
They have also argued that people should be allowed to downsize their homes without penalty.
This would mean that if, for instance a person is to get a grant of €200,000 based on the size of their home but then finds that they are €40,000 short because of the restrictions within the scheme, then the person should be given the €200,000 they were going to be given anyway and then build a smaller home which they can afford.
They say that for many people, including pensioners, going to the banks for a loan to subsidise the grant given under the scheme is simply not a runner.
