Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion

9:30 am

Dr. Paul McGowan:

I will address the point made about legislation for non-registered gas installers, and Ms Rooney may add to my response. The legislation is quite clear. To carry out gasworks if one is not a registered gas installer is a criminal offence. I believe the legislation is very clear in relation to that. The CER has made it absolutely clear in terms of both the publicity that we carry out and in our discussions with the APHCI and other industry stakeholders that any case of suspected illegal activity, if reported to us, will be investigated. The law in relation to non-RGIs is very clear. As I said, the CER sees the key issue here as being a three-pronged approach of communication, registration, and ensuring that registered installers are insured, audited and inspected.

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