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

I move amendment No. 3:
In page 5, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:
“(3) The Building Control Acts 1990 to 2020 and Part 3 may be cited together as the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2025.”.
Amendment No. 3 is a standard provision to allow for the collective citation of the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2025.
It refers to Part 3, which is the Part being inserted into the Bill by a later amendment related to the Building Control Acts.
Amendment No. 13 defines the key term “Principal Act” used in Part 2. Amendment No. 62 defines the key term “Act of 1990” used in Part 3.
Amendment No. 63 provides for the amendment of section 3 of the Building Control Acts. This amendment introduces an additional power by which the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage may make building regulations. The amendment facilitates the provision of information in respect of systems installed in a building in order to provide the end user with the information necessary to support the efficient and effective operation and use of a building after completion. The systems being installed in buildings today were not envisaged when the Building Control Act was written in 1990. As the complexity of what we build increases, so does the need to understand the operation of the systems in order to ensure that buildings can be operated and maintained in accordance with the design intention. As such, the provision of information to an owner of a building at the time of completion will facilitate this when the operation and maintenance becomes important.
Amendment No. 74 proposes a change to the Long Title of the Bill to reflect, in the main, additional matters relating to the amendments to the Building Control Act 1990, namely, “to amend and extend the Building Control Act 1990 to provide for regularisation certificates of compliance on completion in certain circumstances; to change the names of certain certificates issued under that Act; to confer on the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the power to make regulations relating to enforcement notices; to extend the powers of authorised persons; to provide for the opening up of works in certain limited circumstances; and to provide for related matters”.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10