Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Tom Parlon:

Yes, I believe the new standards are ... are very, very good. I think the ... where they are adhered to, of course, and like, we always had reasonably good standards, and I admit there were some very, very poor examples of shoddy work when we were building massively and when a lot of people who didn't have the experience or the skills to manage such big projects. But I do believe that the current regulations are very, very good. They do add a cost, of course, which in a new tight situation is difficulty, and I know that the regulations that currently apply to all housing, there is political moves to remove them from once-off buildings, which we object to-----