David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It goes on to say that any individual who is related to, reports to or is a business partner of someone who would be considered to have a conflict of interest would also have a conflict of interest. Let us say we have a situation - we do not know if it is the case in Dr. Browne's institution - where the head of research was a shareholder in three or four spin-out companies. Further, the people with whom he has a shareholding, namely, his business partners also have shareholdings in different companies. There are possibly up to a dozen companies involved in total. Does Dr. Browne think it would be possible for that person to sit on the commercialisation committee and to have the commercialisation office or the technology transfer office report back to him?