Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

If additional inspectors are required, they should be appointed within the Department and instructed by the Minister on how the job should be done. This quango must be eliminated. It is entirely unnecessary and a total waste of taxpayers' money.

I speak not from a party political perspective but as a Member of long standing who wishes genuinely to advise the Government in this matter. I urge the Minister of State to pause, stand back and talk to his colleagues about the need for incentives to employment, that is, incentives to employers to employ people. The Government should abandon this Bill because it does precisely the opposite.

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