Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will be aware that, for some years now, I have been questioning the policies, status, governance and operations of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. I note that, at the weekend, the Minister spoke out, as he has tended to do over the years, against quangos and on his determination to deal with the quangos under his remit. Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is a quango, and a choice will be made soon as to whether it will continue to be a quango or whether it will be dissolved. In so far as the Minister has influence on this decision, who is the Minister going to meet? Is he going to meet just the board and council officials, or will he meet stakeholder groups and public representatives in order to try to move towards the dissolution of this quango and bring the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company under democratic public control?

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