Construction industry register and rogue developers
Deputy Broughan sought assurances that the proposed construction industry register would identify and exclude rogue developers responsible for defective homes. The Housing Minister said the Bill was proceeding, committee recommendations were being reviewed, and a task force was examining building inspections after Grenfell.
As regards the proposed building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill, thousands of homes built during the Celtic Tiger era are defective and may be fire traps, yet developers who allegedly built some of those homes are now building once again and announcing new estates, etc., with the help of NAMA in spite of the particular importance of this issue since the Grenfell Tower fire. I have been in contact with the Minister in that regard. Will it be possible to identify such rogue developers through the new legislation and exclude them from the profession?
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I thank Deputy Broughan for his question. We are proceeding with the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill. The Deputy is aware that I received a report from the joint Oireachtas committee at the end of December which is currently being reviewed to see how we can accommodate some of its proposals into the legislation to come before the Dáil. As regards the Grenfell Tower fears raised by the Deputy, I last year set in place a task force which is shortly due to report on inspections that have taken place of local authority buildings and all private buildings of a certain height.