Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 11:

In page 7, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “Reports

4. The Minister may within a year of the commencement of this Act, commission and publish reports on the following matters:

(a) the enforcement of construction product surveillance in the construction industry and measures taken to strengthen such enforcement to ensure full compliance with all relevant standards and regulations;

(b) the enforcement of all relevant construction industry and environmental standards in quarries supplying aggregate and other materials into the manufacture of construction products and measures taken to strengthen such enforcement and compliance;

(c) the raising of a levy on quarries, block manufacturers, building suppliers, construction companies, non-life insurance providers and pillar banks or any other such measures aimed at ensuring appropriate financial contributions from relevant industries to the ongoing costs of defective block and other deleterious material defect remediation;

(d) legal challenges and, or public enquiries into the causes of the defective block and related deleterious material scandal and those responsible for that scandal.”.

I propose to withdraw the amendment and have it reintroduced in the Seanad.

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