Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

To return to the recommendation of Ahead of the Curve, the enterprise strategy group's recommendation for a super regulator, and the contrary view taken by the group in the Taoiseach's Department, is the Taoiseach saying that the view of his group is that there should be no rationalisation of the existing 11 regulators or merely that it did not agree with the particular recommendation of Ahead of the Curve?

I am reminded by the entry to the House of the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley, of the marvellous headline the Tánaiste received in The Irish Times on 25 April 2001, "Government to abolish curbs on pubs and pharmacies" within a year. Is there any progress to report on that and did the Minister of State make any recommendations on it?

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