The Irish Times

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has welcomed the Building Control Bill, published yesterday, as the culmination of a campaign stretching back more than a century to protect the public against rogue architects."When the RIAI began its campaign in 1886 to have registration for Irish architects, no one could have imagined that it would be 119 years later before an Irish government finally published legislation to give it effect," said the institute's president, Tony Reddy. Over the past decade, he recalled, the institute had lobbied intensively on the issue. But it only became a matter of widespread public concern last April following an RTÉ Prime Time investigation into the activities of an unqualified individual posing as an architect.