Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
It is useful that Mr. Keeley is on the record as saying that that would be beneficial. It is very concerning that in our building regulations we are an outlier in not covering smoke toxicity, which poses a huge danger to residents in the context of fires and to personnel in fire brigade units. It is an unnecessary risk we are taking in this country compared with other countries. A lot of things went wrong in Grenfell, but if the insulation materials had not had those smoke toxicity levels, many more people would have survived that fire.
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