Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think myself and probably the rest of the board would certainly. I think the chair has a different view, and that is a common view among a lot of semi-State bodies. My view is that boards should probably be smaller than they are, including the Road Safety Authority. I also think that boards should be selected in a very different way to how they have been in the past. I am of the view that they should also include people who are users. In this particular case I would very much like to see people on the board who have expertise in road safety because of what they have experienced themselves. We will be looking for people like that. That will be a novelty but I do not think it is necessarily an agenda which many State boards share. However, I am determined that that should be done and that they will be selected in a way which reduces my own input to an absolute minimum. I do not want to be accused or to in any way appoint people with whom I have common interests or who are friends or acquaintances. I want them to be appointed on merit and that will apply to the Road Safety Authority as much as to any other State agency or State body.