Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will ask a few questions.

On multi-unit developments and the owners' management companies referred to by Mr. Keeley, the apartment owners attended the committee before the summer, and they equally have a concern that they do not have the funds in place to carry out the works necessary. What can we do on this or is there any solution to try to help them to deal with latent defects and, indeed, to try to keep fire standards up to the mark?

On the individual buildings, regrettably and tragically, as Mr. Keeley has said, most of the tragedies occur in single buildings. When an individual property is sold, does it at that stage have to have any certification that it is fire certified? Is there any process at that point?

We are now inspecting HAP properties. As part of that inspection process, are individual houses inspected for fire certification? Could the Department give us a quick update on the Construction Industry Register Ireland, CIRI, Bill and where that is at the moment.