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
Mr. Alan Isdell:
The only comment I would make on a macro level is that when we all sat around in 2012 or so to look at the standards in building and introduced the BCAR regime, the principle the institutes here, the CIF, the Department and various stakeholders worked on was the inter-reliance of all in the building process to achieve compliant buildings. That inter-reliance bit is based not only on inspections by professionals but the work carried out by the contractors. It comes back to CIRI being a key bit in the jigsaw because we have gone through the BCAR regime and while some people may criticise it, it is working. It may need to be adjusted in the future. The next section is that we need to look at the building and CIRI. That is the key thing. That is just a comment on a macro level to put it in context.
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