Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Damien Owens:

There should be enough demand, if I can use that phrase, to justify having those testing facilities within the State. One thing everybody needs to learn from this going forward is that greater oversight is needed of the entire construction process. I know some of that was done with the building control amendment regulations, BCAR, in 2014. There have been huge improvements. When you are dealing with critical infrastructure such as housing and infrastructural developments, given that we are experiencing a housing shortage, the effort spent on remediating defective properties could be better spent building new properties.

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