Mr Binns said some assessments of property damage were done too fast, and by unqualified people.

Waterford Labour TD Ciara Conway said she had been told anecdotally of such unqualified people preparing reports.

Thousands of unqualified people are being employed as teachers as schools struggle to fill gaps for short-term absences.

Many pensioners and unqualified people are to be found among the country's 100,000 teachers.

House Republicans say categorical eligibility, created under the 1996 Welfare Reform Law, allows unqualified people into the food stamp program.

A Whangarei principal says the Ministry of Education is appointing unqualified people as advisers to schools to enforce National Standards.

This is just another example of the serious dangers of following the health and medical advice of unqualified people, she said.

This follows reports that unqualified people with no teaching experience are working as substitute teachers due to a shortage of qualified people.

The swiftness with which the program was implemented resulted in many inexperienced and unqualified people taking on the work as demand exploded.

Mr Hipkins says charter schools are a threat to the country's education system because they allow unregistered and unqualified people to teach children.

Trained staff were difficult to find and nobody in authority seemed interested in providing training for the unqualified people already working in the system.

Fine Gael TD Dan Neville has welcomed a Department of Health pledge to introduce a regulation preventing unqualified people acting as counsellors and psychotherapists.

Weaker underwriting standards help more people get homes, but they also sow the seeds of trouble as unqualified people make their way into the system.

She said there are 1,500 unqualified people teaching, and a combined total of some 1,500 leaving teacher training colleges every year.

Up to 3,600 unqualified people were employed as teachers in the past year as schools struggled to fill gaps for short-term absences.

Unqualified people acting as attorneys or solicitors in the county court shall forfeit 20 pounds.