Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that wording (details supplied) was removed from the final Donegal quarry inspection report from the National Building Control Office published by his Department in December 2022; and the person or body that took the decision to remove this sentence from the report. [63997/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In October 2021, I requested the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office, in partnership with Donegal County Council and Geological Survey Ireland, to carry out an audit of quarries in Donegal to evaluate relevant economic operators’ compliance with the Construction Products Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 when placing relevant construction products (aggregate concrete blocks and/or aggregates for use in concrete products) on the market.

I received a draft report of this audit in June 2022. On examination, my Department raised queries and sought clarification on the content of the draft report, focusing mainly on the work carried out and results of the audit, which was requested in my original request. This additional information was sought from the authors of the report.

On 30 November 2022, the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office submitted a final report which was published on 6 December 2022. The authors of the report were responsible for the final text and the Deputy will appreciate that there were significant changes in the final report from the draft submitted in June as it was updated to include significant additional information arising from the audit.