Pyrite legislation and building controls
Thomas Broughan raises delays to environmental-liability legislation and concerns about building controls after pyrite problems; the Taoiseach promises a mid-2014 Bill and says the pyrite resolution Bill will be debated shortly.
I refer to the environmental liability Bill, which I think was originally to be the pyrite levy Bill. The Taoiseach told me some time ago we would have it before Christmas. We are almost there but there is no sign of the Bill.
On a related matter, will the Taoiseach give Members another chance to discuss the building control regulations given that it seems responsibility is being placed on parts of the construction industry and the Government is not instituting an invigilation process? The Government is not taking any steps to avoid the kind of pyrite disaster we had and the Priory Hall situation. As the Taoiseach will have noticed, the Prime Minister of Latvia resigned a few weeks ago because of a major construction disaster in his country.
Comment on this
Is the Taoiseach happy that the pyrite Bill and the building control regulations, as they are framed, will do the job for the construction industry?