Seanad debates

Thursday, 12 December 2002

National Tourism Development Authority Bill, 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.

 

In this instance we are not speaking about the gagging of the chief executive. This provision is to ensure he or she does as he or she is supposed to do, which is to implement the policy that has been laid down. It is not the function of the chief executive to make policy. He or she is an instrument or a means of ensuring the policy is implemented. If we were to empower the chief executive to offer his or her opinion on a policy which had been set down, we would end up in an incongruous position, whereby he or she might implement a policy with which he or she had fundamentally disagreed and everybody would know. This would not be acceptable.

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