Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

When does the Minister of State intend to enact the Bill? I am concerned that every authority we set up has to have the brass plate on the wall, plush offices, staff, a CEO, perhaps a deputy CEO, and board members that cost a lot of money. None of the members of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board had seagoing experience. The mushrooming of these quangos is out of control. The rain falling tonight is heavy. The Minister of State must be spreading some kind of nitrogen because these organisations are mushrooming. They turn into entities that we cannot deal with.

I refer to ordinary people, such as small horse traders, charities and clubs, who will have to grapple with these organisations. I do not know if the Minister of State helps many people in his office with forms and applications; I am sure he does. We are making things more cumbersome. We have regulators for everything, but there is very little regulation going on in many areas. As I said, many such organisations are useless, toothless and fruitless, but the Government wants to keep jobs for the boys and create more and more organisations. I do not know how much this is costing the hard-working people of this country. Many are of no use. Some of them are okay, but this has gotten out of control. There are CEOs going from one to the other for promotion. They are only interested in their careers, not in supporting communities.

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