Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Layde referred to the new regulations and the emphasis on competent persons signing off on various stages of developments. I am concerned by the fact that competent persons - engineers and others - also signed off on many of the major legacy issues that have arisen in housing estates, etc. It is important that we should properly define what constitutes a competent person and we should make such individuals fully accountable for that on which they sign off. In the past the system in this regard seemingly did not work.