Feargal Quinn (Independent)

That may well be the correct thing to do, that the secretary takes over. It should be the authority's decision. The point I was making was that it is accepted in business, for publicly quoted companies, that it is not good practice or good governance to have the chairman and the chief executive both doing the chief executive's job. The amendment was to avoid that. It has happened in the past and there was an effort to remind State bodies that it was not good governance.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Section 31 agreed to.

SECTION 32.