Sir, - Following recent comments made in your paper on the President's failure to employ a registered architect to design a home for her family, may I relate to you my own experience by way of a probable explanation? Having recently decided to build my own "once-off" house, I wanted it to be designed by a qualified architect, but my search for a firm which would take on this modest project proved fruitless. So what am I, and other ordinary citizens, supposed to do but go elsewhere? - Yours, etc.,
Paul Hannan, Kingston, Dublin 16.