Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Lappin for coming in this morning and wish him the very best of luck in his new role. His CV is very impressive and no doubt, he will bring all that experience to bear. The first thing I will refer to relates to electricians, an issue referred to by my colleagues. I am thinking in particular of electricians in rural areas in one or two man operations. For them to come up with this huge fee is prohibitive and many of them do not bother because they would not make enough money installing alarms in the entire year to justify it. I welcome the news today that this will be reduced.

Would a public information campaign be a priority for Mr. Lappin? I came across an occasion when a person used their local electrician to install an alarm and received a very strongly worded letter from the PSA about the fact that they had used an electrician who was not registered with it. The individual did not know that they were breaking the law by employing someone they knew and trusted and who did all the electrical work for them. I tried to find public information on this in order that the citizen would know that they would be breaking the law if they did not use a registered electrician but I could not find anything anywhere. That is not to say that it is not out there but I certainly could not find it. If I could not find it then how could an ordinary citizen find it? I am thinking of campaigns like the television licence campaign. Obviously, it does not have to be as frequent but I would like to hear Mr. Lappin's thoughts on that.