Mr. Ciarán Devane:

I do. State boards, being non-executive, are not populated full-time. We are not trying to be the executive. If we become the executive then we cause confusion. I am not the chief executive. Rather, my job is to hold the chief executive to account. There has been sufficient time input in that regard and the committee has my commitment to ensuring there is sufficient time input. Over the last nine months while I have been in shadow form, I have demonstrated that. What I must not do is imagine that I am second guessing the chief executive and the executive. If we do that, we end up with an organisation with two competing chief executives such that the clarity needed would not be there. When one's day job is being a chief executive one has to learn to sit on ones hand and sometimes choose not to say things and not be opinionated when one might be privately opinionated.