Ms Carole Pollard:

Notwithstanding that, CIRI, as we have said earlier on, is not a panacea for everything. We are always going to get poor workmanship but it is about how to minimise poor workmanship and then provide consumer protection so that if people are affected by poor workmanship, they have recourse to remedies. Inspections and supervision are very much part of that. In respect of defining the roles, I know BCAR has very closely defined the role of the engineer, architect and the surveyor in terms of assigned certifier and design certifier. Going back to the Deputy's very good question about what defines a builder, we need to have very strict definitions of what a builder does and what the builder's role is under BCAR. I would imagine that because a local authority tenant does not own the house, it may not have latent defects insurance, LDI, or access to a product like LDI. Then the local authority should have that in place. The length of term within which that a local authority or any landlord must act to identify and resolve problems is probably a bit beyond the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017. It probably lies elsewhere but it is something that needs to be looked at.