Mr. Aidan O'Connor:

I did not say anything about that. I just said it was an arrangement between the legal professions and the other professions to achieve conveyancing. What we are proposing now is the implementation of that part of the Act which should have been implemented before. The certificates will now be statutory. We have done a lot of work to explain how they work and who has to have input into the process. Effectively, this proposal sets a chain of responsibility in any work carried out and at every level. There has to be a chain of responsibility so that one can depend on the specifications being correct, for example. An opinion of compliance, in my opinion, was checking whether a building was built in that way. Very responsible professionals would say "Yes" or "No".