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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Eoin Ó Broin (SF), Dublin Mid-West

It would be helpful if the Minister were to provide a little more context for amendment No. 63 and the circumstances in which those regulations may be used. What is the origin or intention of this amendment? This is just to help us fully understand its purpose and scope, and whether it relates to the more substantive issue of amendment No. 74 and the regularisation process related to the Building Control Acts.
With respect to amendment No. 74, in my contribution to the motion of instruction that we discussed earlier, one of the things I asked the Minister was, given the fact there has not been any Oireachtas scrutiny of the building control amendments, and given that those amendments will require the Minister to produce quite detailed regulations on the regularisation process, whether the Minister will give a commitment to consult the Oireachtas housing committee on those regulations when they are in draft form. Will he give us the opportunity to have a hearing where we not only get to ask questions of the Minister and his officials but also hear from the likes of the National Building Control Office and the building control authorities?

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Sitting date: 2025-12-10