Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. John Wickham:

The obligation primarily rests with the manufacturers to make sure they are putting compliant material on the market. As I have said, the standards have reinforced how the process is undertaken in the quarry, how the declarations of the various characteristics of these products are demonstrated to the supply chain through CE marking and declarations of performance, and how we have effective market surveillance to give oversight to ensure the-----