Mr. Cormac Bradley:

Deputy Ó Broin talked about the potential complexity of the register. Let me go back to some of the statistics we have already presented. The architects have talked about a register which has 3,000 members. We have 23,000 members, of which 7,000 are chartered engineers. Not all 7,000 would be eligible, for example, to fulfil the role of an assigned certifier or design certifier because the chartered engineer designation applies across a number of disciplines but let us say, conservatively, that half of them would be eligible to be assigned certifiers or design certifiers. To my right there are 3,000 individuals, there are 3,500 in our organisation and building surveyors might have a smaller contingent. Colloquially, I have seen two statistics for the number of companies on the current voluntary register of builders and there are between 600 and 800. I suggest that it is probably closer to the lesser figure of 600. The actual complexity of managing a register of potentially 600 members is relatively modest, despite the complexity and the diversity of operations they will offer to do in the public domain.