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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on allegations detailed to him by a person (details supplied) alleging breaches of planning regulations; his plans to address the allegations; if he has satisfied himself that his Department and the county council have responded adequately to the allegations raised by the person; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the housing data analytics group was established; the names of the persons that sit on the group; the number of meetings it has had; and if he will make public the minutes and reports from this group. [20647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 545. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason community employment supervisors were treated differently from CDP workers that were employed by community projects in relation to their pension entitlements. [19686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (2 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1482. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a procedure whereby a person (details supplied) can rejoin the Naval Service despite now being over the age limit. [20186/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the three presentations. By way of introduction, with these two hearings and the report that will arise from them we are hoping to not so much focus on the past but to try to come up with what we, as a committee, think are sensible recommendations to Government for both legislative and policy change. While we are conscious of the high profile cases that have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am thankful for all the responses, which were very helpful. It is interesting because we discussed many of the same issues at our previous meeting and many of the same kinds of solutions seem to be emerging, which is really helpful. These will be half-questions and half-observations. It seems the witnesses are all moving towards the idea that one way of removing self-certification, as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms. Neary for her presentation. Our questions to her will be slightly different from those that we put to the other witnesses. A lot of our attention is focused on potential future policy and legislative change, which we are not going to try to pin the Department down on today. That said, I have quite a lot of questions for Ms. Neary. One of the reasons we are dealing with this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Ms Neary know how many of those are in the building control area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a reflection of the very small number of new builds or is it that it is very good at its job, or is it a mixture of both?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The risk assessment is done by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The data are inputted by, for example, the assigned certifier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The algorithm does its works and then it flags it to the assigned certifier and to the local authority - to both of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It the local authority that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume the local authority does not employ-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Do they do that in-house or how is it done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, exactly the same procedure has to be followed in terms of the various points of inspection etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume exactly the same thing applies to any of the other models of social housing delivery, including PPPs. It is basically the same system irrespective of the delivery model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of supplementary questions. Ms Neary mentioned three pieces of information: the building inspector's rapid build presentation; the SI 9 review from some years ago; and the survey building control activity. If some or all of that information - or a summary of it - was available to the committee, that would be really helpful. I will return to the issue of the percentage of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We understand that because it is how it is designed. At last week's hearing, we had this discussion with other professionals. It is not that we think there are loads of dishonest professionals out there who are desperate to game the system. However, the more difficult it is made for anybody to do such a thing, the less likely it is going to happen. That is why it is an issue of concern....