Batt O'Keeffe (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

Section 21(3) outlines the chairperson of the committee shall be a solicitor, barrister or former judge of the Circuit Court, High Court or Supreme Court, who shall be appointed as chairperson by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

The registration body will establish a professional conduct committee. It was originally envisaged the committee would consist of seven ordinary members — three architects nominated for such appointment by the registration body and four persons who are not architects, three of whom are nominated for such appointments by the Minister and one of whom is nominated for such appointment by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

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