Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 938: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of successful prosecutions for failure to comply with Part L of the building regulations in each year from 1 July 1998 to date in 2007. [9698/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Responsibility for enforcement of the Building Regulations is a matter for the 37 local building control authorities. Half-yearly statistics on enforcement of the Regulations, furnished by local building control authorities to my Department, do not give a breakdown of the prosecutions initiated for non-compliance with the 12 Parts (A to M) of the Regulations. However, the statistical returns for the period January-June 2006 — the latest period for which figures are available — show that 15 Enforcement Notices were served by building control authorities under the Building Control Act 1990 for non-compliance with the Building Regulations. In addition, 6 summary prosecutions were taken by the authorities.

My Department's circular letter BC 14/2006 has requested local building control authorities to include, in future statistical returns, and starting with returns for July-December 2006, a breakdown as to what specific Part or Parts of the Building Regulations is/are the subject of enforcement notice or legal proceedings initiated by the authorities for non-compliance with the Building Regulations.