Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I wish the Minister, Deputy Murphy, well for all our sakes. Setting aside ideological differences, which I am glad the Minister has also indicated he is willing to do, is important for all our sakes and for the people affected. I hope he can get the results we need.

The Minister and a number of other people mentioned the fire safety issue. This is not the central point I want to raise but I will mention it briefly given the urgency of it. I will not mention particular places at this point, one or two of which I am going to inspect at the weekend. I have been told by experts, however, that because of the defective nature of the building standards regulations in the area of fire, named estates have dangerous, inflammable materials, including cyanide-emitting materials, such as those which have now been identified as a factor in the Grenfell fire. This is very serious. It is not just issues of enforcement, staff and inspections, important as they are. The actual regulations are defective. The Department has been ignoring submissions it sought on these issues and is continuing instead with defective regulations.