Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

Not for the first time Deputy McManus's comments are music to my ears. The Employment Law Compliance Bill is on Second Stage and the Taoiseach is aware that the Committee of Public Accounts recently published a report on the board of FÁS recommending that it be slimmed down and the automatic right of employees' and employers' representatives to representation at board level be removed. Following the scandal in FÁS and the high quality of the committee's all-party report, would the Taoiseach agree to reconsider that Bill and remove from it the provision to establish a NERA board identical in size and composition to the board of FÁS?

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