Mr. Tony O'Brien:

We are very lucky with the quality of individuals who were prepared to join the board during the course of the last year, myself excluded; it is not for me to make comment on myself. We now have a position where we have eight members of a board who have joined within the last year. We have gone through four of those within the last six or eight weeks. When you are renewing a board, you want to do so at a certain pace. I will be honest, in that it does suit me at the present time to have scope for two additional board members and also to phase and rotate. Having inducted the board members, we are looking at the potential skill gaps. I mentioned earlier that one of the things we would be examining strategically was the specific governance of the approved housing body part. I can well imagine that we may wish to have someone with more experience in their career, perhaps, in that space beforehand. When that arises, I will certainly engage with the Department about whether the Minister would wish to appoint such a person or whether we should proceed to do so. It would not be the intention that they would be left vacant interminably.