Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the avenues open to a person who employed a registered architect who did not carry out their role of assigned certifier leaving their client living in a house which has not been certified since 2015; the number of formal complaints made to an organisation (details supplied) in the past 15 years; the number of architects sanctioned and or struck off following these complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18109/19]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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The Building Control Act 2007 provides for the registration of persons entitled to use the professional title of Architect. Neither I nor my Department has any direct role in the operation of this register. This is a matter for the professional body designated as the relevant competent registration authority for the purposes of European and National law, namely the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) in respect of the architectural profession.

A person wishing to make a complaint about the professional performance of a registered architect may make a complaint to the Professional Conduct Committee of the RIAI. The complaints procedure is set out in the Rules of the Professional Conduct Committee which are available on the RIAI website at the following and at Part 6 of the Building Control Act 2007.

Each year, the RIAI publishes an Annual Report, which includes information about the previous year’s activity. Included in that Annual Report is a Registration Report which gives information about the activity of the four statutory boards/committees: the Professional Conduct Committee, the Admissions Board, the Technical Assessment Board and the Appeals Board. Statistics about the number of complaints and the outcomes of those complaints is included in the information about the Professional Conduct Committee. These Annual Reports are available to view or download on the website of the RIAI at

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