Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 and 83 together.

The payment of directors' fees is a matter for Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company in accordance with the code of practice for the governance of State bodies. While the code requires companies to provide details of attendance in their annual accounts and outlines a number of other requirements in regard to the payment of fees, it does not link the payment of fees to attendance at a particular number of board meetings in any given period.

The company's annual accounts and chairman's report for 2011 confirm that all fees were paid in accordance with Government guidelines. Furthermore, the company’s accounts also detail individual directors’ attendance at board meetings for the period covered by the accounts.  The person referred to attended six out of a possible nine meetings in 2011. This information is publically available. I am not yet in receipt of the company's annual accounts for 2012 nor was I aware of the reports to which the Deputy refers.

The person's tenure on the board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company expired in June 2012 and has not been renewed.

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