Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, and apologise on behalf of my colleague, Senator Ó Murchú, who cannot be here to take Committee Stage.

I fully agree with the amendment that Senator Ó Clochartaigh and his colleagues have put forward in regard to the appointment of the chairperson. I am not insinuating for one moment that the Minister would interfere politically in any of the matters of the board in question. However, she is merely the Minister of the day and, as Senator Norris has pointed out, there could very well be a different Minister in her position in a couple of months.