Mr. Brian Hayes:

It is not the first time I have heard it, it is fair to say. We said in our opening statement that it is critical that we get a position on IS 465 as soon as possible because we will not have certainty without it. I agree it is critical for all of us. We operate in a commercial way but this commercial way is dependent on the sign-off of the experts and professionals. Without this, all of the pipeline and conveyancing chain is broken, as Ms Byrne described.

It is a critical issue. I do note that what we have seen thus far is an initial view, following the publication of the freedom of information request by the group in Donegal. We must speed up now and get to the end point on this with some certainty. I understand it will take some time because of the testing. One of the points Mr. Owens or Mr. Garrett made earlier – I only discovered this recently – is that I am not sure if the sampling and the testing is even done in this country. I am not an engineer, but it is a crazy situation that we are sending these samples from homes externally, given the really serious crisis that faces people that we cannot do it here close to the site in order to have some certainty on the materials that are in it. "Yes" is the answer to the Deputy's question. We need to get a decision on this.