The Competition Authority's chairman, Dr. John Fingleton, has indicated that it will use the report as a detailed base for the remainder of its study of competition in the professions concerned. The study will now progress profession by profession, starting with engineers and working concurrently rather than sequentially, and consultation papers will be published before a final report on each profession. Dr. Fingleton made the point that in beginning with the engineering profession it was likely to be completed quickly because it was not heavily regulated and he believed this would be of interest when hearing arguments from other professions with regard to regulation and quality of service.