Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you.

Regarding the defective buildings, of which there are a few in that batch in Portlaoise in my constituency, the Secretary General said the assigned certifier signs off on these. My understanding when the legislation went through was that the assigned certifier comes in at the end and signs off on them. Who is the Department’s man or woman on the job every day making sure that things are being done properly? It is widely reported that there were no wall ties put into the walls in many of those buildings in those batches of public private partnerships. Wall ties cost 14 or 15 cent each. There was nobody on the ground to see that the wall ties were put in between the double cavity wall when the schools were built and that was the main structural problem in some of them. Who is the Department’s person? Does the Department have a clerk of works on site?