Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

Will the Tánaiste agree to some specific initiatives? For example, in the electricity sector, we are clearly 50% dearer than many of our competitors. It appears that we have decided to pay the chief executive much more. Will the Tánaiste demand that there be benchmarks for competitiveness in this utility set?

Will he agree to audit the number of quangos that have been established and which now run to 500, an increase of 200 under this Administration? Does he agree that we must look at these in order to squeeze better value from public money? Will he agree to take some definite time-limited initiatives to drive some of the change that he appears to accept in principle but where little is happening in practice?

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