Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Bill 2025: Instruction to Committee
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-10
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James Browne (FF), Wexford

The purpose of this motion is to improve the building control regime that is in place to ensure the required standards for building regulations are met. These amendments will make certain that building regulations and building control regulations are further strengthened and clarified to the benefit of all stakeholders. In terms of the proposed regularisation process, the amendments provide for a process of regularisation for the uncommon situation whereby works have commenced or been completed on a building without submitting, by either act or omission, an appropriate, valid notice to the building control authority.
This amendment does not intend to create an alternative to the current building control process. The regularisation process would be limited to buildings and works that comply with the building regulations. It may require a higher degree of proof of such compliance, including, if necessary, expensive investigative work which might require building works to be opened up, and would attracted a significantly higher fee structure, reflective of the scale of the building and the amount of works completed at the time of the submission of the regularisation notice.
I thank the Deputies for their contributions. I hear their criticism about the rate at which these amendments are being moved. Pre-legislative scrutiny has been carried out in the past. I am glad the Department provided a briefing on it. I understand the Deputies' concerns but these amendments are needed.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10