Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 29:

In page 19, to delete lines 39 to 42.

This deals with the accountability of the chairperson and chief executive to the local authority, which we support and have been talking about for a long time. In subsection (2) it is stated, "Neither the chairperson nor the chief executive of a transferred company referred to in subsection (1) shall be required to attend before the elected council if a resolution referred to in that subsection was made within a period of 6 months of the making of the last such resolution." It is somebody declining to be democratically accountable except at six monthly intervals. I have never come across anything like it. A Minister would not come into the Seanad because he was here six months ago. It does not seem to add up under the heading of accountability. This is something none of us in the room believes in. If I told my electorate I did not intend to talk to them for the next six months, they would issue a P45 fairly pronto.