Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not think the Government ever advanced the idea of a statutory register as proposed originally by Law Reform Commission. To this day, we are still looking at a register that is located within the industry. If the Minister envisages that will be the Construction Industry Federation and the Bill is designed in such a way that it will be the Construction Industry Federation, it is ironic that we cannot prescribe in legislation who it will be.In this case it is that it would be the national building control office. I appreciate the architects, surveyors, engineers and registrars are located in their respective industries but this is different because of the number and scale of defective buildings we have been dealing with.