Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I put down a parliamentary question on it recently. I think two were filled in one of the banks while they are at the final stages in the other. My real question, which is what the public really wants to know, concerns the function of the ministerial nominee to the board of directors.

Is the nominee allowed to report to the Minister or are we back to where we were with the children's hospital? Will we have people appointed by the Minister who cannot talk to that same Minister or to his or her colleagues? What is the value of this role from the public's point of view?