Seanad debates

Wednesday, 21 May 2003

Decentralisation Programme: Statements.

 

I will give an example, at the risk of annoying a colleague in my party. The location of the Environmental Protection Agency in a fairly small town in County Wexford, which is inaccessible by any serious method of public transport, is of no great service. There are some parts of the Minister's contribution that I did not like. However, I was taken by the part where he referred to the things that must be achieved. He spoke about creating a public service that will be quality, performance and results driven, that will achieve value for money, that will focus on the needs of its customers, that will be accountable, etc. How can the Environmental Protection Agency be focused on the needs of its customers when an environmental agency effectively requires that anybody who wants to do business with it must travel by car?

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