Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

Let me make a final point. What we know from our experience of building defects in other categories is that the negative impact of defects is not necessarily visually evident at the point when the facility starts to operate. For example, water ingress could be relevant in the context of a facility that has a lot of semiliquid slurry. These things sometimes transpire only at a later stage if the building control element is correct. I would fully support the Minister if he at least discussed this with his officials and examined some kind of guidance by way of a circular, maybe with inspections at some level, purely from a building control point of view, early on. That would make it better for everybody.

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