Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What I am saying is there have to be samples and the local authority is probably best because it is the closest to it and has engineers. I am saying that the Department must look at this. As I said to Mr. Doyle, we are in a process now where we are setting up this regulatory authority. I am trying to suggest a way whereby we ensure that we do not keep making these problems for ourselves and creating huge bills for the taxpayer. I ask the Department to look at seeing whether there is a way of simplifying that. It has to be done at the concrete plant and what is called the batching plant. It has to be scrutinised by an official with an engineering and scientific background who can state there is no mica in it or that the components in the batch are correct. There is no other way. You have to stop creating this problem at source. When it gets to the site it is too late. It is all over. A load of concrete arrives and rain, hail or snow, that load of concrete has to be poured. If the sky opens it has to be poured. That is the reality. That is how it works on any building site.