Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015

9:00 am

Dr. Seán Brady:

I have wide experience of business. I have worked in a number of companies ranging from the dairy sector through to the malt sector and the sugar sector, and back to the dairy sector again in regard to marketing Ornua, where I was interim CEO. So I bring a breadth of experience.

Also, I come from the country, so I am comfortable having a chat with a dog owner in a golf caddy with two or three dogs in it. I have had many conversations with owners in Limerick Greyhound Stadium. I bring a business perspective to the organisation. There are some advantages, perhaps, in a chief executive not being immersed in the organisation in the sense that I can bring an objective view to things - although I am unsure.