Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

It will be directly responsible for the management of the company or the subsidiary and will be answerable to the Minister and the Oireachtas through committee. Before any of these subsidiaries can be established, democratic accountability will be ensured through the requirement in section 24 for approval by the Ministers for Transport and Finance. Accountability will, therefore, be established from the outset and on an ongoing basis.

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