Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters

9:30 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

The Minister's representative or nominee to the board is Ms Bernie Gray. That is in the public domain. Ms Gray is a former chair of EirGrid. She is currently chair of Coillte. She has a significant amount of experience in the telecoms sector and previously worked in the sector for a long period. She is a very well-known non-executive director with a significant amount of experience. The way we look at it is that Ms Gray will bring a public sector lens and that experience to her work on the board. The bottom line under company law is that every director appointed to the board has a fiduciary duty to the company and that is something that------

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