Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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2202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has undertaken a regulatory impact analysis of the proposals to require all active builders to be on the construction industry register; and his views on the potential impacts this could have on restricting market entry and reducing competition. [27504/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department has completed a Regulatory Impact Analysis in relation to the General Scheme of the proposed Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017, which is available on my Department's website at: .

The proposed Bill will establish a mandatory statutory register of builders in Ireland with a view to ensuring quality, competence and good practice in the construction sector. It is also an essential consumer protection measure which will provide consumers who engage a registered builder the assurance that they are dealing with a competent and compliant operator.

In drafting the General Scheme of the Bill, a critical priority has been to ensure that the proposal does not create a barrier to entry, reduce competition or discriminate between builders depending on their place of establishment. In this regard, the intention is to achieve the objective of ensuring quality, competence and good practice in the construction sector in the most proportionate and least restrictive manner possible.