Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is not mine. Will we have a debate on this issue? The programme for Government promised to clean up State boards and all previous appointees would be asked to resign in six months. After the Global Irish Economic Forum, we had these offers to serve for free when other countries would have paid hundreds of thousands of euro to have them. However, none of them has been asked to serve. Instead, we see the same party hacks being appointed to State boards, yet Craig Barrett and Niall Fitzgerald, global leaders, have not been approached by the Government to serve on State boards.