Ms Oonagh Buckley:

First of all, the two-person board structure was ended by my predecessor in July of last year. By law, the Minister precludes there being fewer than three people on a board. That is the quorum now for board decision-making. There are three-person boards. Obviously, that made it quite difficult when we only had four functioning board members, but now that board membership is back up to 15 I will be able to run board meetings morning and evening. There are actually two boards operating now, simultaneously. The key way of ensuring effective decision-making - and in particular, given the risk that arises in any situation of groupthink - is to keep mixing up the boards. The selection of board members in any one time is quite random and the selection of files that members are being allocated is random, save that it is sometimes relative to their expertise. If we have experts in certain areas, we have to use that expertise. For example, one of the recently appointed board members is a marine biologist. We will be using him in appropriate cases. We may use him in a lot of the cases involving marine biology, but the other two members of the board will be changing, shifting and rotating. In that way, we will try to ensure that there are good internal challenges within the board. Having met all the new board members, I can say that they have a lot of challenge in them. That is going to be great. I am smiling at Mr. McGarry because he is already becoming quite challenging.

The other thing is-----