Ms Ann Riordan:

I hope I will be given the position of chairman of SFI; I am only a nominee at the moment. If I am given the position I will be very excited, and I would love to appear again before the committee. I welcome the input of all the members of which I have made a note. If I come before the committee again I will have the answer to all the questions. I thank the members for all the time they have given us. I promised that I would give a little push for corporate governance, and SWiFT 3000 is the code.

I say that because maybe the committee would put it to any semi-State companies that come before it for corporate governance reasons. The people involved in putting the code together for the certification of organisations compliant with corporate governance include the Institute of Directors, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, University College Dublin, the Corporate Governance Association of Ireland, the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, the Electricity Supply Board, FÁS and the Employment Authority, the Standards in Public Office Commission, the Financial Regulator, the Dublin Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, and so on. We have managed to pull everybody involved with standards and corporate governance together. I wrote to every Minister at the time but the Government changed so I want to push it again from a corporate governance perspective. I thank the committee for allowing me to do that.