Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 April 2003

Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

How will the Bill prevent any of these people setting up and portraying themselves as accountants when, in fact, they have little or no qualifications? If a customer of one of these unqualified accountants has a problem with them, there is nobody to whom he or she may complain. Surely this legislation provides us with an opportunity to throw the net over the entire accountancy profession or anyone who wants to call themselves an accountant. This could be done with a relatively straightforward amendment and I am sure we will come back to this on Committee Stage. In the meantime, I would be interested to hear the Minister of State's views.

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