Responsibility for checking furniture standards
Dukes challenged the burden on purchasers to verify compliance; the Minister said the IIRS monitors furniture and welcomes complaints for investigation.
Would the Minister not agree that it is not really a very satisfactory position to find that it is up to the purchaser to ascertain whether the furniture in question complies with those standards?
Comment on this
I might add that the IIRS monitor the furniture on sale and, where they find it to be defective in any way, bring that to the notice of the public so they in turn can be on the watch out for particular brands of furniture. Where there are any complaints lodged in relation to furniture, or if anybody who has any knowledge of such, including Deputies B. Allen and Dukes, the IIRS will be only too happy to examine the standards and do something about it. That is the position obtaining.