Mr. Aidan O'Connor:

Inspections should apply to all buildings right across the sector, including offices, places of work and so on. It is not a sectoral rule. We were encouraged by the planning section which was seeking higher densities to build apartments. The planning section considered that one way of dealing with higher densities was to build apartment blocks. Many issues should have been dealt with then. Unfortunately, they were not. The multi-unit developments legislation tried to deal with apartments when it became clear that builders were setting up their own companies to manage the building, rather than residents, companies. That has now been changed. It is a requirement that the management company be taken over by the residents and occupiers of the building.

There should have been a red flag system. As far as I am aware I do not think there was a red flag procedure. We are required to conduct a market surveillance for Europe and we are setting up a red flag procedure. When we become aware of a material that is known to be problematic, we red-flag it to local authorities. We have done that on a number of different materials, such as plaster board, hollow steel sections and so on.