Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will accept that.

The Minister of State mentioned that he has had meetings with the board of NBI. The membership of the board of NBI is not published on its website. I accept it is not a semi-State agency, but it is the practice in big semi-State agencies for us to know who is on the boards. We know who is on the board of almost every organisation that has any interest in the public good or public services in this country. In this case, we do not. Instead, we have another biography of Mr. David McCourt, as the chair of the board. Given the size of this investment and given how important it is, this is something I have asked the company. They just said that they would take my comments on board. It is not easy for anybody to go and check who the board of directors of this important company are. It does not help with the transparency.

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