Dáil debates
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
Regulatory Reform.
11:00 am
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
The Department is the policy initiator. The point I was making is that the Department does not want to be involved in the day to day decisions, but policy direction should rest with the Department, not with the agency. If the Deputy asked should a Department give away all its powers of influence to a regulator, I do not think it should.
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