The group had used fake names to hide their true identities, secured business by misrepresentation, knowingly delivered defective services and persuaded customers to pay substantial deposits for substandard work, according to Trading Standards.

There are a number of issues why this may be, but Áine points to infrastructure, health services, expenditure and, pointedly, the issue surrounding defective concrete blocks.

Current and former FCA staff said the regulator had a “defective culture” in which “errors and inaction" were "too common”.

Cells have a waste disposal system to clear out defective molecules, and this protective mechanism was activated in cells lacking USP39.

He said that because there were no agreed-upon standards for deciding when a defective ballot could be counted, the result would differ county by county.