Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 667: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason architectural technologists have not been recognised in the Building Control Bill 2005 as persons who are entitled to sign-off on the compliance of a building, as it is their skills that are primarily used to establish compliance on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12853/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The 1997 Report of the Strategic Review Committee on the Construction Industry – Building Our Future Together — recommended that the title of "Architect" should be registered by law. Subsequently, the Forum for the Construction Industry submitted proposals to my Department for the registration of Architects, following consultation and agreement with the architectural representative bodies.

The Building Control Bill 2005, which is currently before the Houses of the Oireachtas, provides, inter alia, for the registration of the title of "Architect" broadly along the lines recommended by the Strategic Review Committee on the Construction Industry and the Forum for the Construction Industry. Proposals were not made to my Department for the registration by law of the title of "Architectural Technologist", and such provision has not been made in the Bill.