Mr. Frank Daly:

It varies. There is a good practice policy which holds that sometimes the organisation carries out the evaluation and sometimes it should get in external people to do it. I will offer one example. The most recent evaluation involved a comprehensive questionnaire which was designed on the basis of professional questionnaires produced in the private sector.

There is a whole series of questions on different aspects of the functioning of the board, ranging from what do you think of the Chairman to what do you think of the committees, do you think the committees are working, do you get enough information, have you access to the executives, can you ask questions, and all of that.