Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion
Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Okay. I have just one query about Davy and do not want to go around in circles and ask the same questions again. I will ask about the level of qualifications required to sit on an Irish board. As we know, board membership is bound by age. That seems to be the only great marker for board membership. Does Ms Rowland feel there should be some minimum standard of corporate governance qualification? I am sure that there are ongoing reviews and whatever else in certain financial systems. I would be curious about the qualifications in corporate governance that the guys in Davy were exposed to. If they were doing a certain amount of corporate governance every year, questions would surely occur to them about whether what they were doing was right and where they were going.
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