Part 3 of the Building Control Act 2007 enables eligible persons engaged in the provision of architectural services to register for the use of the title architect. The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has been designated as the registration body for the purposes of Part 3 of the Act.
To date the registration body has established an Admissions Board and a Technical Assessment Board which allowed for the commencement of the registration process in 2010. The Chairpersons of these Boards, who may be a solicitor, a barrister or a former judge of the Circuit Court, High Court or Supreme Court, were appointed by my predecessor as Minister who also nominated a majority of persons who are not architects to each Board.
The Act also provides for an Appeals Board and a Professional Practice Committee and the matter of appointing Chairpersons and nominating the majority of non-architect members to each of these bodies is now being attended to as a matter of priority. I understand that the registration body has received one application for an appeal against a decision of the Technical Assessment Board.
The table below lists those members thus far appointed to the bodies concerned.
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Applications Board
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Mr. Richard Humphreys, Chairperson
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Ministerial appointee
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Ms Paula Butler
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Ministerial nominee
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Ms Mairéad Hughes
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Ministerial nominee
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Mr. Brian Cunningham
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Ministerial nominee
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Vacancy
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Due to resignation of Martin Hogan, Ministerial nominee
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Mr. Eoin O’Cofaigh
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RIAI appointee
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Mr. Toal O’Muire
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RIAI appointee
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Ms Gráinne Shaffrey
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RIAI appointee
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Technical Assessment Board
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Ms Cliona Kimber, Chairperson
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Ministerial appointee
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Mr. Sean Balfe
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Ministerial nominee
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Mr. Henk van der Kamp
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Ministerial nominee
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Mr. Bernard Lennon
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Ministerial nominee
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Ms Geraldine Walshe
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Ministerial nominee
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Ms Orla Fitzgerald
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RIAI appointee
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Mr. Loughlin Kealy
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RIAI appointee
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Ms Joan O’Connor
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RIAI appointee
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