Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

11:40 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

In fairness to the board members, the first board served its term of five years. When the term ended it was around the same time that the decision was taken to move to another site. The board that was appointed thereafter was a caretaker or interim board and it kept the entity in operation, which we would expect. One cannot just abolish a board, wait for six months and then appoint another one. It was important that there was continuity. While one can characterise it as three boards in a short number of years, it is reasonably acceptable in the circumstances from a governance point of view.

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