Surveyors’ job growth prediction optimistic

Your April 29 edition included the article headlined "Lack of graduates entering construction ‘threatening sector’s recovery’."

As a fellow of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and a registered surveyor, I wish to dissociate myself from the society’s interpretation of its survey.

If 1,100 new surveying jobs are anticipated between now and 2018 (which would suggest an increase in construction jobs, over the same period, of between 50,000 to 75,000), any slack will be taken up by the thousands of Irish in the industry, many of whom are more skilled than I and, who, like myself, were forced to emigrate in the wake of the Celtic Tiger’s collapse.