Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion

Mr. Feargal ? Coigligh:

Today's discussion has been about having confidence that the products being produced are compliant. It is not lawful to place products on the market that do not comply with the relevant standards and methodologies for use in construction. We have heard from the NSAI and the NBCMSO about the work that has been done in recent years to improve standards. We have also heard from the NSAI about the risk-based assessment stemming from the NBCMSO. In the latter's early years, it has been focusing on the extractive industries. We have a report today that makes recommendations on further improvements. We have heard about issues with paperwork, but we have also heard bout some positives, in that any testing that has been carried out has shown that products have been compliant technically, which is reassuring. The NBCMSO referred to markets having been taken off the market. Perhaps Ms Phelan wishes to speak to that again.

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