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

I accept that. I tend to lean towards a commission. Maybe none of the witnesses are allowed to say because they are all being very balanced and neutral, even those who are veering one way or slightly veering the other. I can see the advantages of the commission only because, when one is dealing with a fairly broad range of areas, including quite controversial issues, it is good to have a bit of balance; a few heads are better than one. On first impressions, I think I would prefer that. However, I like the idea that the offices that deal with public complaints, concerns, whistleblowing, etc., would all be one body. Is it the logical follow-on of the streamlining of the fragmented legislation, or rules and regulations, into one piece of legislation that one would also try to integrate the different agencies that are points of engagement for the public on these matters into something bigger and more visible that becomes a well known force to which the public can go, although it might well have different sections that deal with different aspects of all this? On the first observation, that seems like quite a good idea.