Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is mainly the load-bearing product that will cause major concern and as I said, it will be manufactured locally without any real regulation or standard. I suspect much of that would have been done over the years but are there any plans in the Department or in terms of policy to have perhaps a clerk of works through the local authority system to examine building standards and building product? It happens in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland where the local authority or a building inspector would call at various stages of a construction and examine it to ensure the product being used is correct, that the steel beams are fire-proofed, that the construction product is good and that everything is up to standard. That does not happen here. Are there any plans in that area?