Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I may be wrong but I look forward to an explanation by the Department officials in this regard as to when a completion certificate is needed and where we have legislated for the difference between how we treat a "specified" work or a "designated" work. This may well exist in the legislation but I may have missed it. This could be pointed out to me separately, given that the Minister of State is not willing to point out where that difference applies.

What is the harm in my amendment which proposes that the commission would also set out the circumstances in which a completion certificate may be granted or withheld as well as the procedures to be followed and the records to be maintained in that regard? Would this not provide a cover-all in case we have inadvertently missed something in this complex arrangement of designation of different types of works and provide the commission with the authority to sort out any such difficulties that may arise in the future?

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