Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

To add to that, a major issue with SHDs is that the information is lost once the private website goes down and people do not have access to it. Of course, they can access the information through the process Deputy Ó Broin is going through now, but that is incredibly inaccessible, so a lot of that information and the access to it are lost. That creates problems with compliance and enforcement where people may think there is an issue and they want to go in and have a look at the information before they take up anyone's time in an enforcement role or capacity. They want to check themselves to see whether they are correct in thinking there is a potential breach. If they cannot access that information, it is hugely problematic for them.

There is another issue. The websites for the SHDs can be user-friendly, which is good. On a negative note, they can have certainly aspects of marketing from the developer. I understand why a developer would do that but it can also just create a public perception of not getting the information from an independent source but from the developer, with their nice drawings or images or whatever, presenting the development in the best possible light. That tends to be how it looks on the home page. There are those aspects as well. I know they may seem a bit superficial, but they have an impact on the process. The core issue here is having access to that information on a centralised website such as the board's. I ask the Minister of State to look at that.