Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

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

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. John Wickham:

I am sorry. I did not say it was not a crime. It was also a crime in 1992. The 31 building control authorities were market surveillance authorities. We must also consider the fact that the number of harmonised standards that fall under their remit is in the order of 450 different standards of multiple products. It is, ultimately, the case that the obligation is on the manufacturer to ensure that a compliant product is placed on the market and a risk-based approach is taken by market surveillance to investigate any non-compliance and regularise matters as they see fit.

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