Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am aware of some of them. We sit on a committee together. I said I wished her luck. I did not say she could not do it. We all hope Brexit pans out in the least worst fashion possible. Perhaps if this deal does not happen we will go for a second vote and it will all have been a bad dream. However, I am not sure we will get that far too soon, either.

On the issue Senator Humphreys raised about fire safety in apartment buildings, I would like to see a debate in this House about the merits or otherwise of a building regulator. So many units were built and planning permissions granted during the boom. Stuff happened, stuff was built. Architects were supposed to have been involved, as were quality surveyors. There should have been supervision. I thought there was supervision and now we are talking about percentages of-----