Seanad debates

Tuesday, 3 December 2002

Adjournment Matters. - Appointments to State Boards.

 

I take this opportunity of making one or two suggestions. Now that the joint committee dealing with semi-State bodies has been abolished, those appointed as directors to semi-State companies should be subject to some sort of public examination and scrutiny at the very least. It would not be beyond the ability of this House to ask fair and sensible questions of the people concerned at a public hearing about their qualifications for sitting on such boards. We should also consider the very dubious practice of appointing members of the so-called social partnership to the boards simply and solely because they are social partners.

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