Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, there were a number of recommendations in it that caught my eye. Mr. Gunning said today that they have all been implemented in full. One of them was around the commercial capability and capacity of the board and the executive. The report recommended that it should be strengthened to be more self-sufficient and less reliant on external advisors. I must bear in mind that we have only a short time remaining and I do not want to be abrupt with Mr. Gunning. However, I am tied to Covid guidelines and as we have the Department of Health in the room, we have to abide by them. In this regard, is Mr. Gunning confident that the board has been sufficiently strengthened and is less reliant now on external advisers than it was a year or two years ago?