Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the co-existence of standards I.S. 20 Concrete Building Blocks and I.S. EN771-3:2011 Specification for Masonry Units were allowed to continue, when the EU standard was first introduced in other EU states; the reason it took time to be implemented here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18988/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The functions of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) include the development and publishing of standards to meet international demands for the quality, design, performance, safety and environmental impact of products and services. The NSAI is an agency under the auspices of my colleague the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

While my Department works in collaboration with the NSAI in relation to the development of standards for construction products such as concrete blocks, decisions in relation to co-existence arrangements or effective dates for standards are a matter for the NSAI.