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

One of the difficulties in Grenfell, for example, was systems failure. It was not just highly combustible cladding; it was systems failure. There were many issues with it. One of the issues that came up in Grenfell was the smoke toxicity. As I think most people would know, it is generally smoke that kills people, not usually fire. Smoke toxicity levels in the building materials is one of the issues. There was a 2004 report from the UK’s Building Research Establishment that noted that only two countries in Europe did not regulate smoke toxicity levels in building materials properly, and those two countries were the UK and Ireland. As I said, there were many factors in the Grenfell Tower but one of the factors was smoke toxicity levels from building materials. Regarding the changes made in part B, are smoke toxicity levels in building materials now regulated or not? What is the situation?