Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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I am urging the Minister of State to use the technical expertise of his officials to look at the issue. The sanctions in later sanctions distinguish between serious breaches and less serious breaches involving a range of punishments. Being struck off is only one of those. I accept that people sometimes breach building regulations without knowing or understanding them. Sometimes they are minor breaches, which is not much of a problem. In some instances, when these matters have been brought to their attention after the fact builders or developers go back in and remediate at their own cost. Those types of builders and developers should be congratulated on doing that.