Mr. Mark Cullen:

In terms of carelessness, obviously any place of work comes under our remit. We are not involved in the registration of competent contractors. There is a definition of competency under the primary legislation covering the HSA and that is what we need to work from. Being on a register may be an indication of competency, but when carrying out an inspection we would make an assessment of whether they are competent based on the work carried out. We are not involved in the application per se, but we form our opinion on any contractor based on the work on site. If we deem that there are concerns or that the contractor may not be competent, we may give directions for the work to stop. Whatever the inspector sees on that inspection will determine the direction to be given to that contractor. We do not have a role in the application piece. The 2005 Act allows us to go into any workplace and through that inspection programme we will determine competency based on what we observe.