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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Meaney not see merit in having insiders and outsiders, to use that phrase?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: As one who comes from the outside track I would like to see an outsider on the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Very occasionally. Every board must be challenged in some way, in the same way as we challenge the system every week here to one degree or another. I would certainly like to see a contrary or contrarian voice, preferably a contrary voice, on it which would reflect the view of the other side. There is always another side.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: No, but I have a few people in mind.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Would Mr. Meaney ever take a risk and recommend an outsider to the board? Would Mr. Meaney consider this for the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Will Mr. Meaney take the risk and invite someone onto the board who may have been critical of it in the past or present, and who is recognised within the area of greyhounds, racing and breeding as being knowledgeable, but on the outside?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: I would say he knows a few names.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Mr. Meaney would make a recommendation surely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: The board would make recommendations on the skillsets-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Being an outsider gives one a great skillset because one must watch all angles and one's back.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is in charge. Deputy Costello spoke about the transfer of knowledge from the past to the present and the overlap. The Department has been asked questions on this overlap, and the board and chairmen have been asked similar questions, but we have not received an answer. They will be recorded in the transcript. I propose to leave the vote...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: In regard to the board and the increase in its size that was mentioned, the members of the board presumably are appointed by the Minister, or are they appointed separately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Does the organisation ask for particular skill sets in terms of board members because in this instance with the debt and everything else, I am sure that is important?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Are stakeholders represented on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: How are they looking?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: How much?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: I asked Mr. Murnane about the Tote, a matter in which I am interested. He might correct me if I am wrong in my understanding, as I obviously am. The income from the Tote at the 17 stadia is approximately €20 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: That generates a margin of approximately 10%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: Bord na gCon pays out of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)
John McGuinness: If Bord na gCon takes 10%-----