Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for Finance if two additional board members have been appointed to strengthen the National Development Finance Agency's new role in managing the procurement of PPP projects and bringing them through to completion; and if so the appointees names. [38914/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I have appointed two additional members to the board of the National Development Finance Agency. The appointments are on an interim non-statutory basis in the first instance, pending amendment of the National Development Finance Agency Act 2002. The additional board members are Mr. Fred Barry, the chief executive of the National Roads Authority, and Mr. Stewart Harrington, chartered surveyor, director of Killeen Properties. The other members of the board are Michael J. Somers — chairman — chief executive, National Treasury Management Agency; Anne Counihan — chief executive — head of legal and corporate affairs, National Treasury Management Agency; Ann Fitzgerald, secretary general, Irish Association of Investment Managers; Tony Jones, business consultant; and Peter McManamon, chairman, Ceva Inc.