Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The EU-IMF memorandum of agreement indicates that the Government agreed to introduce legislative changes to remove restrictions to trade and competition in the sheltered sections, including the legal profession, establishing an independent regulator for the profession and implementing the recommendations of the legal costs working group and outstanding Competition Authority recommendations. Prior to the negotiations with the EU and IMF, had the Government already decided to introduce such legislative changes? Will the Taoiseach give us a brief summary of that?

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