Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration

12:30 pm

Mr. Hamilton Goulding:

I will say what should have happened. There should have been more rotation of board members. I think this happens in many boards. The members who retired every three years kept getting re-elected. I think the board should have refreshed itself. We did take on two new members in the last year prior to our departure. It was our ambition to focus on that and try to make some more changes. When people get stuck for too long, it is-----