Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, that is not the case. Once a person is appointed to the board, he or she will no longer be a member of a subsidiary board. The Deputy referred earlier to the Limerick issue. It is said that if we forget history, we are doomed to repeat it. We have to act on the lessons learned and ensure we move on.

The board will be eight plus one. The Deputy said earlier that all stakeholders should be represented. If we do that, we will have only stakeholders and will not have the financial, banking, legal and veterinary skill sets we need on the board.

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