Effective Regulation seminar
Thursday 26th April 2012
Stormont Hotel, Belfast
Regulation is central to many aspects of the economy, ranging from energy, water and telecommunications to financial services and the media. It is not exclusive to markets and the private sector and is central in many public services such as healthcare delivery.
This half day seminar will examine the key issues around better regulation. There are many challenges facing those organisations which are part of the regulation process and indeed there have been many high profile regulatory failures, across a number of sectors in recent times including the financial crisis, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and locally, crisis after crisis in our hospitals and healthcare system. Despite these failures, there is a common perception that the burden of regulation, for businesses and public sector organisations is increasingly heavy with significant cost implications to the taxpayer.
It is often considered that the best form of regulation is choice - where customers essentially act as a form of regulation by choosing to go elsewhere if products and services are not to their satisfaction. There are, however, many industries, where this is not economically feasible, including where companies and organisations need regulatory certainty and freedom from political short-term decision-making in order to reduce their business risk. This is applicable locally in sectors including energy, water and to a large extent transport, where it wouldn't be economically viable for a large number of companies to be competing in a market with significant infrastructure investment costs.
Featured speakers include:
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Jo Aston Director of Water Utility Regulator |
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Kyla Brand OFT representative for Scotland Wales & Northern Ireland Office of Fair Trading |
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Peter Dixon Chief Executive Phoenix Natural Gas |
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Glenn Houston Chief Executive Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority |
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Antoinette McKeown Chief Executive Consumer Council of Northern Ireland |
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Sharon Turner Queen's University Belfast |
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