Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to parliamentary question number 126 of 24 May, 2012, if he will outline the relevant degree under the Building Control Regulation Act, 2012, that are acceptable to the Society of Chartered Surveyors under Section 43.2.(a).(ii); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28618/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Section 43(2) of the Building Control Act 2007 specifies that a graduate of Dundalk Institute of Technology who has received from it in any year prior to 2005 a degree of Bachelor of Science in Building Surveying or in 2005 or any subsequent year an Honours degree of Bachelor of Science in Building Surveying shall be eligible, subject to having at least 2 years appropriate experience of performing duties commensurate with those of a building surveyor, for registration in the register of Building Surveyors established for the purposes of the Act. Section 43 further stipulates that the Minister may prescribe other educational bodies or other degree, diploma or qualifications for the purposes of eligibility for inclusion on the register.

In relation to the prescription of educational bodies and qualifications, Section 43(4) requires that the Minister must be satisfied that a particular third-level course will provide the requisite level of instruction in the various elements of the discipline of building surveying before the relevant educational body and the qualification concerned may be prescribed for the purposes of Section 43(2) of the Act. The Minister is further required in accordance with Section 43(5) to consult with National Qualifications Authority of Ireland or the Higher Education and Training Awards Council as appropriate in this regard.

No additional education bodies or qualifications have to date been prescribed for the purposes of Section 43(2) of the Building Control Act 2007 and no proposals of this nature are currently being considered by my Department.