Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I appreciate those commitments but given that smoke toxicity levels in building materials are regulated throughout Europe – we are an outlier on this – given there is the 2004 report from the UK’s Building Research Establishment that noted this problem, and given that 72 people lost their lives in Grenfell Tower where one of the many issues was smoke toxicity levels, surely we should be properly regulating smoke toxicity levels in building materials in Ireland now and not just having it on a list of things to look at.
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