Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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That brings the governing body to the unenviable position whereby a staff member who essentially heads up the university is providing information to the governing authority and the governing authority, which has an oversight role, relies heavily on the information provided by staff. For the benefit of anybody who is not a member of a board or governing authority, we are talking largely about a group of volunteers that is provided with papers in advance of a meeting and those papers are relied on in order to make those decisions. Would that be correct?