We need to instil a duty of care and morals into the professional classes

“All professions are a conspiracy against the laity” — George Bernard Shaw’s observation retains a frightening degree of validity, albeit at the rhetorical end of the social commentary ‘meter’. 

Michael Clifford (Irish Examiner, April 15) appositely employs this ‘truism’ to comment on the private cartel of ‘professions’ which operate the planning, development and building schemata peppering the urban and rural landscape.

Of course the unspoken ‘nudge-nudge/wink-wink’ philosophy is deeply woven into many strands of professional networks both statutory and private.