Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

That is a good question. I remember having a long discussion with Deputy Ó Cuív in the context of Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, about the number of board members. We commissioned Indecon to examine this and it recommended eight. There is no magic significance to eight, other than if the board is too big it becomes unwieldy. Indecon's view was that the board at the moment is quite small as boards go. Indecon picked eight but if someone has a view that it should be nine or seven, nobody will die in the ditches over it. That said, it was not something that we just plucked out of the air but was in the Indecon report.