New regulations to ease the application of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 9 of 2014) for single dwellings and for domestic extensions come into force today, 02 September.

Paudie Coffey, TD, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, said: "To ensure that building standards are maintained in respect of these types of builds in particular, arrangements for local authority inspections will be reviewed and improved.

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"My Department will now engage with The County and City Management Association to ensure inspection capability is developed and resourced over time and local authorities will now be submitting quarterly reports in relation to their building inspections to my Department and these will be monitored closely – these actions will ensure progressive inspection improvement by local authorities in all sectors, i.e. single dwellings, multi-unit residential developments and commercial buildings.

"It should be noted that the new regulations which apply from today only relate to single unit development or a domestic extension. There is no change in respect of other types of developments."

(CD/JP)