Dr. Fergus Sharkey:

We worked very closely with our colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine when they were developing that scheme. We went through why we have minimum qualifications, how we manage it and why we have a separate register for companies. The company register is really to help home owners or businesses to find a company because they are not going to ring individual installers who are named on the register; we want them to contact the companies. It is more of a guiding register whereas the core register is the installer register.