Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yes, it is, and that is exactly what I am getting at. No. 9 in the Schedule to the Higher Education Authority Act states about people who are not resident in Ireland:

A member of An tÚdarás shall be disqualified from holding and shall cease to hold office if he is adjudged bankrupt or makes a composition or arrangement with creditors, or is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to suffer imprisonment or penal servitude or ceases to be ordinarily resident in the State.

Why have we two board members who are not resident in the State?