A garden wall about 6ft tall has a settlement crack in it for years, if bord gas networks make a gas connection and as a result their work disturbs or causes damage to the wall or it falls down (worse case senario) are BGN responsible.
Depending on how bad the crack is, you may need to consider this from another angle. If the wall falls down due to an existing structural fault that is known, and injures someone, who is liable?