Ms Aideen Howard:

The first board meeting I attended was on 14 December, which was I believe the same day that this musical officially opened. My experience therefore of this has been informed by reading the Grant Thornton 3 report as well as discussions with my colleagues. In the past six, seven or eight months it has been apparent that this is a reforming board, and that the activity of the board is now clearly focused on refining, improving and redefining both the governance, by which I mean the metrics and the protocols by which our business is done, and the culture of the organisation. As my colleagues have mentioned, we are working very responsively to the expert advisory committees engaged by the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, and we will be awaiting their recommendations and responding to them when they come.