Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department, or a body under its aegis, can provide figures on the number of professionals removed from professional registers maintained by Engineers Ireland, the RIAI and the SCSI in each year since 2000; and the general reasons for these removals. [22225/17]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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The title of Chartered Engineer is protected by the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland (Charter Amendment) Act 1969, while the Building Control Act 2007, among other things, provides for the registration of persons entitled to use the professional titles of Architect and Building Surveyor. 

Neither I nor my Department has any direct role in the operation of these registers.

This is a matter for the professional bodies who have been designated as the relevant competent registration authorities for the purposes of European and National law, namely Engineers Ireland (EI) in respect of the engineering profession, the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) in respect of the architectural profession and the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland (SCSI) in respect of the surveying professions.