Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank everyone for attending. This matter is highly technical. I come at it more from the human side. I do not envy the witnesses’ task and I hope they can help me with mine. The damaging effect that the whole mica situation had on individuals and their homes is devastating and cannot be overstated. I refer as well to the damage to confidence in construction sector generally. I appreciate all of the work that the witnesses have done to date. As the Chair indicated, we would like to come out of the committee with even greater confidence that, going forward, people can have confidence in the construction sector generally and in the materials being used. We talk about these materials, such as concrete, and hopefully it is a product of the past, however, it is still being used in every building site in the country.

I have a number of questions. Many of them are about the new organisation that has been set up under Dublin City Council as a shared services function for the 31 local authorities. I am fairly certain it was said that the NBCMSO has responsibility for the technical and formal compliance of the construction products. Is operational compliance explicitly excluded? Is that what I heard stated?