Mr. Phil Meaney:

Let me answer that. Before the Minister or both Ministers decided that all board appointments to the Irish Greyhound Board should be through PAS, I recommended that. I am wholeheartedly in favour - and I can only talk about Bord na gCon - of the process being through PAS. While the Deputy points out that I am a member of a certain political party, my answer to that is that I would rather see anyone being something than being nothing. I have not brought politics to the greyhound board and politics did not enter it when the five people were being appointed recently. We want the best people we can get on the board. That is my position. What colour they are is something somebody else has to deal with.