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LEGISLATION IS urgently needed to outlaw the “minimum snagging” of apartment developments, a conference on residential property development and management was told yesterday.

Speaking at the annual conference of the Irish Property and Facility Management Association, Pat McGovern, managing director of McGovern Surveyors, said the completion of snagging is a nightmare for building surveyors and management companies. Builders typically only complete 20 to 30 per cent of the snag list, a list of defects in a building, provided to them by surveyors in advance of the transfer of an apartment development to a management company.