Paschal Donohoe (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 22:

In page 27, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:

"(5) The Authority shall be required to provide an account of the continuing necessity for the subsidiary to remain in being on the expiration of two years from the date of its establishment.".

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of organisations, some 16 in total, involved in transport provision for the Dublin area. The Bill provides for the authority to establish its own subsidiary organisations to deal with specific or technical issues. This amendment seeks to acknowledge the ability and power of the authority to do so but to ensure any such established organisations account to the authority regularly and allow it to determine if they are required.

The authority is being established to deal with the proliferation of bodies and agencies dealing with commuter problems. It is, therefore, appropriate the authority does not generate unnecessary bodies. The amendment will allow the authority to review any bodies it establishes to decide whether to prolong or terminate them.