Seanad debates
Friday, 27 June 2003
Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Second Stage.
The accountability of the commission has been raised. This issue is of personal interest to me. I am not a fan of unanswerable quangos, of which we have a few. We should not create any more of them. The Bill establishes, in section 25, that the commission is required to report to the Committee of Public Accounts and, whenever so requested, to a committee of one or both Houses of the Oireachtas. Having been a chairman of a committee to which representatives of various State and para-State enterprises had to be dragged kicking and screaming, I welcome this measure.
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