Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

With all due respect to the Minister of State's remarks, the system certainly must be improved given that no agency takes responsibility for any accident in a public place. We have nothing so it must be improved. Some existing agency must take responsibility. I do not advocate a new agency. The Minister of State will remember the bus crash on the quays in Dublin where people were seriously injured. Nobody was in charge or responsible. In spite of that accident and a report in November 1999, the Government has done nothing.

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