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A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...the point, but to illustrate a much larger truth. Poor countries don't need our aid; they need us to stop impoverishing them. Until we target the structural drivers of global poverty - the underlying architecture of wealth extraction and accumulation - development efforts will continue to fail, decade after decade. We will continue to watch the poverty numbers rise, and the divide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of the architect on a school building project (details supplied); the amount being spent on the architectural process; if the spend on architectural services for this project will run over the initial budget; if so, the amount by which it will run over; the justification for any overspend; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Architects Register (28 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current position in relation to the establishment of a statutory register of architectural technologists, in view of the establishment of the QQI standard in architectural technology almost a year ago; and the likely timeframe for its introduction. [10203/17]

Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...up and stay up and ensures it does not cause problems. One cannot expect the architect to know everything about engineering, no more than one could expect an engineer to know everything about architecture. It is unfair. Subcontractors come in. Many of the buildings built during the past 20 years have a structural steel frame, and how it is put together is vital. The person who puts...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Qualifications (17 Sep 2014)

Mick Wallace: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following on from the recent CIAT meetings, if he will include architectural technicians and architectural technologists to act as assigned designers-certifiers under SI 9 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34324/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations Qualifications (27 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: There is no doubt that unless a structure is formed whereby architectural technologists can constitute a statutory registered body on their own, architectural technologists will be second-class citizens. The Minister's new regulations insist on the submission of working drawings before work begins. I would have no problem with that. I always waited too long to get them from architects. It...

Topical Issue Debate: Building Regulations Qualifications (27 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: As the Minister will be aware, I have some serious reservations about the new regulations introduced in March this year. Before I deal with the issue of architectural technologists, however, I want to say that I still believe the Government is missing the point and that independent supervision by people working for the State is the best way forward. I still insist that it cannot possibly...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Qualifications (13 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: 456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will instruct his Department to create a register of suitably qualified architectural technologists with a view to including this register as a statutory register along with the proposed statutory register of contractors next year. [21090/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (1 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: 28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider including architectural technologists on the list of registers identified under the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19461/14]

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...with Dublin City Council, due to all the work my company did in the city, and a huge undermining of morale in Dublin City Council is under way at present. First, in 2008 and 2009, all the graduates from engineering, architecture and planning, professionals of all sorts, were laid off. Since then, there has been no recruitment because a recruitment embargo is in place. On top of that,...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)

Mick Wallace: ..., of which the architect's is only one. He or she can only sign off on his or her own work. If he or she is forced to get involved in other areas not in his or her domain, there will be no small architectural firms in Ireland because only the large ones will be able to take out insurance. To sort out the insurance problem, if we cannot put in place proper legislation to cover the six...