Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

-----and fair competition are at the heart of this. When we go through the Bill in detail, it may not be perfect but everybody will be convinced that it is a massive step forward.

When I published the Bill the week before last, somebody sent me a newspaper clipping from The Irish Times of 6 January 1953 which, by coincidence, was the day I was born. The headline in one section stated the then Minister was to reform the Public Transport Act of 1932. That is what I am now doing.