Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I can comment generally on some of the issues raised, although I do not have some of the details involved. The building control Bill is to strengthen the enforcement powers of local building authorities, as well as providing statutory protection to implement the EU directive on the energy performance of buildings. That energy element is in the Bill. As Deputy Quinn has spent most of this session asking about this, we finally cleared it yesterday so we will introduce it in the next session. The legislation deals with all the issues the Deputy raised.

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