Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Sorry. The Minister reappointed the board and it now holds office. We were told last week that it was a competency-based appointments process. Does the Minister consider that the people appointed to the board on day 1 were competent or, to put a more political slant on it, did they have the requisite skillset to do the job? Does the Minister now think that reappointing them was a mistake and do we need to look at it in the short term?