Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The regulation issue is interesting. As the Minister knows, the Competition Authority did not recommend that the regulatory authority would have sole regulation powers. In Britain there is a practice of regulating the regulators and there is a difficulty in Ireland that is acknowledged by the Law Society. It rigorously defends the independence of the complaints procedure but there is a perception among the public that the process is not independent; the Law Society has conceded that this new regulatory authority should have a full complaint function.

I invite the Minister to outline why he believes the British model, where there is a process of regulating the regulators-----