Ms Oonagh Buckley:

As Mr. Hogan said, that nomination process is never going to be resumed. Instead, people will be appointed through the Public Appointments Service, which is correct and proper, and I have already spoken to Mr. Hogan frequently about the need to ensure we have very timely appointments to those permanent members in order that we can start swapping in and out the interim members in a way that keeps consistency across the board and do not have any big lags again in board membership. I know the Department is very concerned to make sure that happens and I will be pushing its officials. They are getting used to me being very pushy about appointing people.