Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick:

We support appropriate standards. We must ensure that we do not overregulate at the expense of making development unviable. The industry has been subject to huge cost inflation in recent years. Very often, many of the biggest challenges to development mean that it is just not viable to build. We support an appropriate standard that protects people to live and work in those units. We do not do anything that would endanger public safety, but at the end of the day the Deputy must bear in mind that for a development to take place it must be viable. In many cases, overregulation can result in development becoming increasingly unviable. That is perhaps a cause of some of the vacant or underutilised buildings at the moment.