Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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We will come back for a second, and possibly a third, round.

There are some questions I myself have on the clerk of works issue at the hearing in October 2020. It is well-established now that the problems that arose in large building projects in the eight or ten years before that arose, were not - the design of the building was not changed - because the architect fell down but because there was no supervision from the employer's representative - in other words, the Department - on site. One of the major problems was simply down to the wall-ties not being dropped on the concrete blocks when the two sets of walls were being constructed. I note now that the Department has committed to, and confirmed that there is, a clerk of works on every large project site and I welcome that. Generally, is the clerk of works an employee of the Department? I want to keep the questions short.