Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

He is responsible for taking this approach. He set up a separate quango unnecessarily. He could have been cost effective. An bord snip nua pointed the way for him, but he insisted in a bull-headed way on setting up an expensive regulatory structure for which he is now penalising the independent radio sector in particular as well as others. The Minister cannot walk away from his responsibilities. I urge him to ensure that the secondary legislation is annulled so as that we can start again and try to put right the problem he has created. He must bear some responsibility for it.

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