Governance
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Statement on Engineers Ireland Annual Report 2024
Conscientious Observers are making this statement as it appears that governance culture in Engineers Ireland has not changed, since we made public our observations of non-compliance in 2023. We can substantiate this opinion based on sample observations from the recently published Engineers Ireland Annual Report 2024. Furthermore, it is important to publicise that all of Continue reading
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When Reality Clashes with Perception – Engineers Ireland encounters the Truth
Founded in 1835 as the Civil Engineers Society of Ireland, in 1877 it received a Royal Charter after being renamed ‘The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland’. The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland (Charter Amendment) Act, 1969 established a new professional body, ‘The Institution of Engineers of Ireland’, as the sole body licensed to award Continue reading
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Public Interest no longer served – Engineers Ireland removes right to Appeal
– covert actions to distance itself further from Industry Regulation “Even trust”, according to Judt[1], “the faith we have in our fellow citizens, corresponds negatively with differences in income: between 1983 and 2001, mistrustfulness increased markedly in the US and UK and Ireland – three countries in which the dogma of unregulated individual self-interest was Continue reading
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Who holds Engineers Ireland to account if its Bye-laws are repeatedly ignored?
“Competence is almost always an ingredient in trust”, Solomon[1] tells us, “but competence by itself is different from trust. Trust can be earned, but to link trust so closely to trustworthiness, knowledge, and verification is to remove all significance from the act of trusting. Calculative, deterrent, and strategic trust are fraudulent versions of trust with Continue reading
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