Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

The primary duty and responsibility of the public interest directors as well as all the other directors are to ensure that the institution on whose board they serve is run properly and appropriately. Their primary responsibility, regardless of their title, is to the institution on whose board they serve. Is Dick Spring a suitable person to be the director of a board in the public interest or otherwise? Of course he is. Dick Spring has a very long record in this House. He has a very strong record as a Minister and as Tánaiste, and he has a very strong record in business and as a member of the legal profession. He is well fit to be-----

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