Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

We have covered a lot of ground and I accept some of the witnesses are constrained in what they can say about policy or the direction things should take. However, is it fair to say that the biggest problem with the draft heads is that it just is not clear how the legislation will operate. Having moved beyond the current semi-State model, we are being told in broad strokes it is going to the local authority.

What happens after that, however, is not really clarified. Broadly speaking, the choice confronting us is between the corporate subsidiary model and a much more democratic one run by the local authority. Who in the local authority will run it? Is it the elected representatives or the executive? Is that a fair summation of what needs to be clarified?