Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The issue is that sometimes a good engineer manages to capture this and sometimes he or she does not. We are dealing with the legislation that allows for the licences and the opening of the roads. From what I can see, this is costing the public millions in proper repairs when substandard repairs have been done and let go over time, or when the local engineers or whatever feel they do not have enough legislative powers to pursue a company or utility that has dug up roads and done insufficient reinstatements. They cannot go back a year or two later, when the trench that was reinstated has sunk, or anything like that. Would this Bill not therefore be the place to try to address that?