With regard to the board of DMDL, it may be recalled that the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Dermot Ahern, announced last month that the chairman and managing director of IBM Ireland, Mr. William James Burgess, was succeeding Mr. Paddy Teahon as chairman of the company. Mr. Burgess, who is retiring from his IBM posts shortly, held a number of key positions with the company both at home and abroad. He is also a board member of the Irish Management Institute, immediate past president of the employers' group IBEC, former chairman of IBEC's e-business strategy group and a non-executive director of Ulster Bank. In July last he was appointed chairman of the National Competitiveness Council. In short, he is a man of just the calibre required to drive this ambitious project forward. His skills and experience could scarcely be more relevant and I do not doubt that his appointment by Deputy Dermot Ahern will prove a wise one.