Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

All this Bill introduces is that that is done independently, copying that process, and we follow the same procedure and that the same documents are submitted. What we are looking at is to have that person assigned in an independent manner and not paid for by the developer, builder or whoever, but by the local authority. There is no extra cost in that because that cost has already been incurred or will be incurred if done under the normal processes. There is the same negotiated fee or whatever it is. There is no cost to the local authority to do this independent inspection because it has to be done anyway. The other point, which was mentioned earlier, is the panel at local authority level. That panel is already there. It just operates in different offices and one has to apply to different offices for different certification processes, and at a different timeframe. All we are doing is bringing that panel of people into the same room at the same time to make a decision on this. I think we all want to get to the same end result. I just thought that it would follow the BCAR system but be done independently rather than being carried out by the builder.