Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

In the past ten years, the Government has pursued a Thatcherite policy of establishing quangos for all sorts of purposes that were previously within the remit of the Dáil and the Ministers serving in it. Each quango has a chief executive officer, chairman, board and, usually, a public relations officer at a considerable cost to the Exchequer. Quangos remove authority from this elected Chamber of the people.

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