Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor
9:00 am
Mr. Damien Moloney:
I cannot comment on the policy point. The reason we have directors on boards, be that a nominee, private sector shareholder or the State, is because there is a value in that, but that value is hard to define because of the obligations of the director to the board as well as to the shareholder, leaving the director in a very difficult situation. I would imagine, for any director in that situation, there are challenges. We see value in it as well so there remain civil servants on boards.
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