Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I am a fellow of the Irish architect's society and am also on the Minister's list. The RIAI has adopted the members of the Irish architect's society, if they wish to join the RIAI.

When the House dealt with the issue of pharmacies yesterday, we did not allow the Irish Pharmaceutical Union to be the regulatory body for the registration of pharmacists and pharmacies; we set up a separate group to do that. This is the key question. The Minister could have set up a registration of architects board or a registration of professionals board and could have introduced a procedure for appointments to that board, which would have been seen as more independent.

I will not go through all the correspondence sent to me by my constituent from County Louth — sorry, he is not a constituent. He met the Minister and told him the Competition Authority was very concerned that the Irish architect's society would be——