Mr. Cormac Bradley:

It is not one person who must be answerable. There are a multitude of sins in that particular example. The local authority must hold up its hand and say that it did not do its job.

One of the entities that is defined under the building control amendment regulations, BCAR, is the building owner. The building owner is now no longer somebody who simply pays the bill. The building owner has legislative and statutory obligations under BCAR that he or she cannot run away from.