Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 28:

In page 27, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(g) construction products regulations;”.

One of the weaknesses in our building control regime is that, for the most part, we think of building control in terms of some level of regulation, monitoring or enforcement of the process of building itself. Obviously, a lot of what the register is about is ensuring that those people who are engaged in that process are properly qualified and meet all of the relevant criteria. The poor relation of building control, with building control itself being the poor relation in our planning system, is the area of construction product regulations. The most glaring evidence of that is what we are seeing now with defective blocks used along the western seaboard and also the pyrite scandal of which Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, I and others have a fair bit of experience. It would be appropriate to include in this section a reference to construction product regulations. We have a series of other relevant provisions here but just naming those regulations and highlighting them would be very valuable. It is on that basis that I have tabled this amendment.