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

In the second round I will have questions for the other two groups of witnesses. I am trying to get a sense of this at departmental and ministerial levels. In 2017, we had the independent report on defective blocks and it does not seem to me that a wild lot has changed. In 2019, the national building control office, NBCO, was created but, as Mr. Butler has said, it is a relatively small office. Can Ms Neary tell us how many full-time equivalent building control officers operate within local authorities? Does the Department know that figure? How many of the building control officers are skilled or qualified in the specific areas that relate to the discussion we are having here?