Ms Lisa Hone:

To be honest, it is not surprising. People have been living with this for a long time now and have done their own investigations. People have followed this very closely. It comes back again to this lack of appetite to enforce the regulations. The State has powers. It has powers within building control and within local authorities. However, and it is hard to say why exactly, there seems to be very little appetite for the State to challenge what is happening in manufacturing and in the quarries. When you get an industry professional stating that he thinks there are still defective concrete products being put into the Irish market, that is no shock at all unfortunately for those who are living in defective homes. They have followed this and they have never seen anything happen or change.

The same quarries that produced the defective product are still in operation. There is the answer.