Mr. Martin Burbridge:

I will share with the Chairman and members of the committee where we believe we are heading. As mentioned in our opening statement, the board of Scouting Ireland has oversight responsibility, but also, because of the way we were structured, it has a number of people who have an executive function day to day and week to week. We are changing that. The board will become an oversight board with a senior management team which will be led by a chief executive officer and a number of senior department heads who will be responsible for delivering on the policies and services that are needed for our membership across the island of Ireland. They will be reporting regularly, probably monthly and certainly no less than every two months, to the board of directors.

We want to make certain that the board of directors are more cognisant of the oversight functions. The number on the board at present is 20 members and we are envisaging a smaller board, around 12 or 13 members, but the number is not quite finalised. We are also envisaging that some members of that board will not be elected at the company AGM but will be brought in to ensure that we will have the right expertise, talent, and experience on the board. That is a key element of this. We need to ensure that we have external people as well as internal people with the correct balance of skills between all the different groups. We are working towards that.