Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance if all 14 of the candidates selected for the OPW/RIAI architectural graduate training scheme will be offered positions considering seven applicants are yet to be offered positions, though the start deadline is March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5464/11]

Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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This Office sponsors a post-graduate architect training scheme to provide practical experience for graduate architects wishing to prepare for the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (R.I.A.I.) (NUI) examination in professional practice or RIBA Part 3 examinations. The training programme is available for up to a maximum of 30 Graduates for a period of 3 years. This Office currently has twenty four Graduates on the training programme including seven from the most recent competition run by the R.I.A.I. The remaining seven applicants will be placed on the programme as and when the work programme permits and the necessary resources are available. While it was hoped that all the graduates would have been placed between October of last year and March this year it may be some months before further calls are made. All remaining seven applicants have been informed of the situation.