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The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, TD, invites submissions, observations and comments on a proposed amendment to the Building Regulations Part B (Fire Safety) for buildings other than dwelling houses.
A review of Technical Guidance Document B is required due to:
In addition, Housing for All includes the review of the building regulations as a key action (action 25.6) to drive compliance and standards through regulatory reform (policy objective 25).
Under the building regulations, fire safety is dealt with under Part B of the second schedule and the associated Technical Guidance Document B (TGD B).
The review has also taken into account:
The public consultation will run for 3 months.
General submissions and comments on the review should be sent by email to partbconsultation@housing.gov.ie
Submissions and comments relating to specific technical matters or relating to the proposed revisions to Technical Guidance Document B (Fire Safety)* should be submitted on the Template for Submissions only and sent by email to partbconsultation@housing.gov.ie
The closing date for the receipt of submissions and comments is no later than 21 April, 2023 .
Draft Technical Guidance Document B 2023 – Fire Safety – Volume 1 – Buildings other than Dwelling Houses
Draft Building Regulations (Part B Amendment) Regulations 2023
Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis - Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations
Template for Submissions - Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations
Privacy Statement - Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations
All submissions and comments submitted to the Department for this purpose are subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2014, and the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007- 2014, and Data Protection legislation.
Personal, confidential or commercially sensitive information should not be included in your submission and it will be presumed that all information contained in your submission is releasable under the Freedom of Information Act 2014.
Please note that the Department may publish a summary of the responses received.
A privacy statement relating to any personal data that may be provided is available for download under the Documents link above.