Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

We are talking about the National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill and for all other authorities as well there should not be a blanket provision. There is ministerial discretion as to who is appointed to any board. There is no attempt to interfere with that prerogative of the Minister. However, there should not be an exclusion. There is no exclusion, for example, for county managers or senior civil servants, who may be taken away to carry out duties such as this, often neglecting responsibilities they have at local level. This exclusion should not be in the Bill. I feel very strongly about the matter——