Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 13, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:

"(3) The Minister shall be fully and directly accountable to Dáil Éireann through all standard Dáil procedures for any such regulations.".

Amendment No. 6 seeks that the Minister shall be fully and directly accountable to Dáil Éireann through all standard Dáil procedures in respect of regulations. The key problem with State agencies is the lack of accountability to this House. The Labour Party and all colleagues are very anxious that the Dublin transport authority will not become a HSE on wheels. This is everybody's great fear. The authority must not end up as a quango that is totally unaccountable to the House, going about its business without reference to elected Members.

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