Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise an issue about some of the smaller port companies that are akin to local authorities.

While I picked them out without researching each one, there are proposals to merge some of these authorities with local authorities. Some of them are extremely small, are not really commercial semi-State bodies, although that might be their title, and manage areas that in many cases could be managed by the local authority. They should be subject to FOI.