Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I suggest to Mr. O'Connor that if not his organisation then the Department has made an elementary mistake in leaving those people off the list and that it is not prepared to correct that mistake because it would be an admission that it was wrong from the outset. It is rather strange that these people who are highly qualified are not allowed to work in Cavan but can work in Derry or Tyrone in the North of Ireland, in other words, they can work in Britain and in Europe. They have highly recognised degrees yet that is not recognised here, and the witnesses are removing them from the list. That adds further to the theory that in dealing with the architects Mr. O'Connor's organisation is more into structure and aesthetics while the chartered technicians are more into quantity, quality and what goes into the building, which would seem to indicate that the witnesses are all show and no substance.