Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017

9:30 am

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question is more related to the operation of the register rather than legal remedies. For example, if there is a chain of responsibility in the delivery of the product, for example, a house, and if, having bought a house, I discover something was not done correctly and therefore somebody is guilty of misconduct or negligence and should be removed from the register, the way the system is proposed, it is not just as straightforward as asking whether it was the individual who put in the fire stopping, the foreman, the builder or the developer. My question is, when I make a complaint to the Construction Industry Federation against whom do I make the complaint? Who is ultimately responsible? Will we have a situation such as we currently have whereby the subcontractor will blame the foreman who will blame the builder who will blame the architect? This is the question I am asking.

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