Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Healy and Ms Lenehan and congratulate them both on their new positions. I wish them the best of luck. I will be brief because I know the Chair had a lot of contenders to be the first out of the traps and Deputy Fitzmaurice seems to be in a hurry.

In asking my first question, I do not mean to put Mr. Healy on the spot. This is not Mr. Healy's first rodeo. He was before the committee in a different capacity when we discussed the conception of this whole idea. Now that we have got to this point, I would like to hear Mr. Healy compare and contrast, as is said in the leaving certificate, what he, as a former president of the IFA, looked for and what he has got.

Does Mr. Healy think that in his position he will be able to deliver on everything he would have been looking for in a former life as the farm organisation representative body? Will Mr. Healy and Ms Lenehan give some more information on the difference between their two roles? What is the role of the board as opposed to the regulator or the CEO? In what way will that relationship evolve? Will they give a breakdown of how they both see their individual roles in the overall picture? Without putting Mr. Healy on the spot, I would like to hear the compare and contrast between what he was looking for and what he got.