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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but I may reintroduce it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, line 2, to delete “periodic” and substitute “annual”. This a straightforward amendment to replace the word "periodic" in terms of a person being appointed by the Minister to carry out inspections of the registration body, audits on the performance of the registration body and reviews. Rather than these being periodic...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate the annual report but should there not be an annual audit of the performance? What will be the arrangements in terms of auditing performance?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate the response but given the importance of this body and especially given that the amendments Deputy Ó Broin and I tabled to section 8 were not passed, it is critically important that the performance of this body is audited on an annual basis. Left at the discretion of the Minister, it could go on for years without it. I will certainly press this amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, line 5, after “accordingly.” to insert the following: “This report shall also be furnished to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage.”. This is quite a straightforward amendment. It seeks that where inspections, reviews or audits and reports are furnished to the Minister by a person who...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is similar. Amendment No. 10 relates to section 17 of the Bill which is about the annual report. It calls for the annual report to be furnished directly to this committee. I appreciate that it would probably be available in any event, but there is a difference. If it is sent directly, in a practical sense, it means it comes to everybody's attention. It is in the correspondence list....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 17, line 20, after “Minister” to insert “and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage”. On the basis that amendment No. 8, which was the more significant of my amendments and made the annual report more easily accessed, was agreed, I am happy to withdraw this amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 11: In page 17, to delete lines 25 and 26 and substitute the following: “(3) The annual report shall include details on: (a) admissions; (b) appeals; (c) complaints; (d) investigations; (e) sanctions; (f) training; (g) Board and committee member; (h) disclosure of interests; and (i) any additional information requested by the Minister.”. ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State. He did not mention a disclosure of interests. Is that something that the report would include?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. The key issue for me here is the independence of the inspectors. I am coming at it from a slightly different angle to Deputy Ó Broin and I am taking a broader view. Obviously, people who have the competence, the expertise and the skills in this area presumably will have been employed in the industry before, and will have done previous...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 17: In page 19, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(2)The inspector appointed undersubsection (1) shall- (a) be a person who, has satisfactory experience and competence to perform the functions required of them under this section, and (b) be independent in the performance of those functions.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are not discussing them together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: Given what the Minister of State said, it is still a very reasonable amendment. It would be helpful to press.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 19: In page 20, to delete lines 24 to 35, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following “(4)The ordinary members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister following an open competition as follows: (a) 8 persons who are nominated for such appointment by the Minister following consultation by him or her with the Minister for Further...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: On amendment No. 23, one of the nominations should come from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. It has a representative role for people working in the sector but it is also very important that the interests of homeowners are reflected. As a representative body of union members, it reflects the interests of homeowners as well as people working in the industry, in that broader policy context...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 23: In page 20, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(iii) one of the five persons shall be a person nominated for appointment by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 26: In page 22, to delete lines 24 to 26. This amendment relates to the appeals committee. It also relates to the discussion we just had. The purpose of the amendment is to delete the provision whereby half of the members of the appeals committee would be appointed by the registration body. It is the same principle. The legislation sets out that if the register...