Mr. Stephen Scott:

On the issue of quantification of costs, my practice is involved in a large number of cases, not just in Dublin but in Cork, Shannon and the west. As has been discussed among the surveying fraternity, there could be a role for engaging with professional bodies, such as the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Engineers Ireland, to canvass their members without necessarily having to identify specific apartments or get the consent of owners. This would give some sense of the number of schemes which have been remediated and their costs and those which are currently under investigation and their likely budget costs. That would be some mechanism of getting a sense of what the problems are to date, even though there are other schemes which have not been inspected yet.