Mr. Robin Mandal:

If I may try to address that for the Senator, at the moment building control is done through the building control management system. It is a system that came in in 2014 or 2015. It is basically a system of ongoing checks within the team doing the design, construction and so on. A certain number of buildings are meant to be randomly inspected by the local authority building control unit. I think that at the time the system was set up they hoped to get approximately 10% of buildings inspected. I am not sure what the figures are - I have not done the inspection - but it was meant to be a system of random inspections. The difficulty, from the planning authority's point of view and the State's point of view, is to do with liability. In a way it is academic because the State ends up carrying the can anyway, as we see, but there is an understandable reluctance on the part of a State official to pass something when it may not be correct, and then the liability rests back on the State. It is quite complicated. Even in the UK, where they did not change that system and where they have the system of municipal inspection, they semi-privatised part of it, so there are non-municipal building inspectors. It did not stop Grenfell. All these things, if not to do with the planning Bill, would be to do with regulations but-----