Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

I am not aware of the specifics but I can get them. I know the issue of fire regulation is taken seriously within the local government system. In general, there has been quite a lot of reform of building controls and regulation in recent years. There have been additional improvements at various junctures. We are now preparing for a national building standards regulator under the programme for Government and staff have begun work on trying to develop a model for that regulator. That will take the building regulation regime further.