Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Building Regulations (Fire Safety): Discussion

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an incredibly technical area, let me try and stay with Mr. O'Dowd. In colloquial terms, one might call that a combustible fire system and a non-combustible fire system.

They are very generic terms. Is it correct that there have been products on the market that do not reach that standard? To date, have cladding systems been used that do not reach that standard?