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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will return to the statements that were made by Aidan O’Connell to this committee earlier in the year. Just from the witnesses’ reply, they said they were thoroughly investigated and no issues were found. That is correct, is it not? I just want to get my head around this. There is obviously a considerable gap between his statements, direct experience and direct knowledge,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Just so we understand and know this, does that mean that there is not a possibility that defective materials were used between the testing that the NBCMSO did in the previous campaign and then the subsequent testing? Is that possibility very low? Where there is a very strong view that defective materials are being used, are those testing processes robust enough that they are sufficient to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can Ms Phelan explain “continuous testing” a bit more?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a final question around laboratory testing. There was a well publicised case in the UK in terms of fire cladding that was tested in a laboratory setting and was found to be compliant. However, the conditions were not real-world conditions, if you like. Once that fire cladding was exposed to wind conditions, the material then was found to be highly flammable, whereas in a laboratory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: It can meet the standards and gets through all the different processes, laboratory testing, certification, market surveillance office and all of that, but be the completely wrong product to use in certain conditions. While we can take some reassurance that there are these standards and processes in place, that is a level of reassurance, but it is not the end of the story. If the products...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Just to finish on this, can Ms Phelan tell us a bit more about the performance in use tests? The NBCMSO has no role in that, so who has a role in the oversight of performance in use tests?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The local authority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The national building control office would then have a role in that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is my final question. Are there enough resources in that and enough oversight or is that an area that needs more attention?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: The operators keep a record of who they have supplied but there is not necessarily follow-up. They are not told that there could be a problem.

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank all those on the working group, who did a lot of work on this, especially the people involved in the Apartment Owners' Work, the Construction Defects Alliance, and the more recently formed Not Our Fault redress campaign. The best way to prevent defects from happening again starts with a robust planning and building control system. Yesterday, the Dáil passed legislation to...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would return the good wishes of Happy Christmas to the Minister if he were still here. The Minister has a tendency to leave the Chamber during these debates before either I or Deputy Boyd Barrett speak. We do not take that personally. We merely note it. I will extend Happy Christmas wishes to all my other colleagues in the Dáil, and especially to all the staff who do tremendous...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce financial supports for residents reliant on communal energy systems in the form of one-off energy credits or a direct subsidy covering the difference between the average domestic rate and the commercial rate of gas, pending the development of appropriate regulation of the district heating sector;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Likewise, I strongly oppose the appointment of CIF to be the register. In his opening statement, the Minister of State referred to how, "Given the wider functions of the CIF, there are a number of safeguards in place". That latter statement on safeguards given the other roles of the Construction Industry Federation is not a position we should be in. I mean we should not appoint a body to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have one comment. I thank the Minister of State and it would be useful if he would write to the committee on the independent building standards regulator with an update on that. That would be very useful. To clarify the Minister of State's answer on the body that is to be appointed, which is in this case the Construction Industry Federation. The Minister of State said that if it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: If a clear case cannot be established that it is not performing, can it also be changed or not? If there was a change in Government or if a different Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage felt that this was not the best way to do it, can it be changed? Is this set in policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but without legislative change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Therefore, you would have to establish that in order to make the chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 (Appointment of Registration Body) Order 2022: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is there a timetable in terms of periodic review?