Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will have a 14-member board plus a chair giving 15 in total. I would not expect all 15 members to be single-discipline experts. I take Ms Uí Bhroin's point if the panel were depleted of a certain discipline or expertise, the board would then be left short of that. I would imagine that somebody with experience of architecture would also have knowledge of urban planning, spatial planning and maybe transport planning. It would be good to have multiple expertise. Would it be a risk if, for example, the ecological expert comes off that panel that the other panel members should have some knowledge of that as well?