Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)

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

I am urging the Minister of State to use the technical expertise of his officials to look at the issue. The sanctions in later sanctions distinguish between serious breaches and less serious breaches involving a range of punishments. Being struck off is only one of those. I accept that people sometimes breach building regulations without knowing or understanding them. Sometimes they are minor breaches, which is not much of a problem. In some instances, when these matters have been brought to their attention after the fact builders or developers go back in and remediate at their own cost. Those types of builders and developers should be congratulated on doing that.

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