Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 1st April, 2022.

I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25 (1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1165/98 of 19 May 1998¹ , as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 September 2003² , Regulation (EC) No. 1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005³ , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006⁴ , Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁵ , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1178/2008 of 28 November 2008⁶ , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 329/2009 of 22 April 2009⁷ , Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009⁸ and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 461/2012 of 31 May 2012⁹ , in so far as it relates to Annex B thereto, hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Quarterly Survey of Construction) Order 2022.

2. (1) In this Order –

“quarter” means a period of 3 months ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September or 31 December in any year;

“Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1165/98 of 19 May 1998¹ , as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 September 2003² , Regulation (EC) No. 1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005³ , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006⁴ , Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁵ , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1178/2008 of 28 November 2008⁶ , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 329/2009 of 22 April 2009⁷ , Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009⁸ and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 461/2012 of 31 May 2012⁹ ;

“Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006” means Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁵ as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008¹⁰ , Regulation (EU) No. 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2012¹¹ and Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019¹² ;

“survey” means the Quarterly Survey of Construction that is conducted by the Central Statistics Office for the purposes of obtaining from persons or undertakings to which this Order applies information specified in the Schedule, including for the purposes of compliance with the Regulation, in so far as it relates to Annex B thereto.

(2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and also used in the Regulation has the same meaning in this Order as in the Regulation, other than where the context otherwise requires.

3. This Order applies to a person who, or an undertaking (other than a public authority) that, is classified for statistical purposes under section F of NACE Rev 2 set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006.

4. A requirement on persons or undertakings to which this Order applies –

(a) subject to subparagraph (b), to provide, for the purposes of the survey, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule in relation to-

(i) each quarter, and

(ii) each month in a quarter referred to in clause (i),

in the period from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023, and

(b) to provide the information referred to in subparagraph (a) quarterly, and in relation to the immediately preceding quarter, in the period from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2024,

is hereby prescribed.

5. The Statistics (Quarterly Survey of Construction) Order 2021 ( S.I. No. 55 of 2021 ) and the Statistics (Quarterly Survey of Construction) (No. 2) Order 2021 ( S.I. No. 314 of 2021 ) are revoked.

SCHEDULE

Article 4

1. Information regarding the following, as it relates to the person or undertaking concerned and specifying the month and quarter, as the case may be, to which the information relates:

(a) the nature of the business;

(b) the number of persons engaged in the undertaking or by the person in the period concerned;

(c) the value of construction work, including repairs and maintenance, done in the period concerned –

(i) excluding the value of such construction work by subcontractors (other than labour only subcontractors) for the person or undertaking concerned, or

(ii) where the value of work referred to in subparagraph (i) cannot be excluded, the estimated percentage contribution of the work referred to in subparagraph (i) to the value of such construction work.

2. Information on the time taken by the persons or undertaking concerned to complete the questionnaire, form or other record prepared by the Director General for the collection of the information referred to in paragraph 1.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

29 March, 2022.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.

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