David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

If the Minister of State is going down this avenue why does he not license telephone operators? They often come into contact with sensitive information. They dispatch not only taxis but ambulances, fire brigades and the police. As far as I know they are not licensed and anybody can get a job there. Many of them seem to be poets, certainly at my local exchange.

The Minister of State has not addressed my comments on amendment No. 36, that it is redundant and simply states one must have a licence because one must have a licence. I genuinely ask because I may have missed something. It does not seem to me to make any sense as it states if one must have a licence one must have a licence, unless the person who drafted it was infected by reading the late Gertrude Stein's line that "a rose is a rose is a rose", and decided for poetic balance to include a licence is a licence is a licence.