Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 665: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has any meaningful breakdown of the data obtained from inspections for compliance with building regulations and fire safety certification and he is satisfied that adequate enforcement is occurring. [30593/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Responsibility for the enforcement of the building regulations is a matter for the 37 local building control authorities. Statistics furnished by local building control authorities for 2004 show that 56 enforcement notices were served by building control authorities for non-compliance with the building regulations; and 41 prosecutions were initiated. The relevant statistics do not give a breakdown of the outcome of inspections in terms of non-compliance with specific parts — A to M — of the regulations.

The agreed national target for building control inspections is that each building control authority should inspect a minimum of 12% to 15% of buildings for which valid commencement notices are served on the authority. In 2004, 31 out of 37 authorities — 84% — achieved this target and I would hope that all authorities would achieve it by the end of 2005.