Ireland must shake off scandals to be boardroom standards leader, say online trainers Corporate Governance Institute, backed by Enterprise Ireland, is targeting growth abroad
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David Duffy (left), founder and chief executive of the Corporate Governance Institute, with Anthony Quigley, founder and chairman. Photograph: Alan Betson
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An Enterprise Ireland-backed company aims to “democratise” corporate governance training for board directors at home and abroad through online courses illustrated with examples of governance scandals, including the one that happened under John Delaney’s watch at the Football Association of Ireland.
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First and foremost it gives Minister McEntee and her husband Paul some peace of mind as they focus on raising their first child.
But it does not resolve the ministerial maternity-leave quandary for any future female Cabinet minister who becomes pregnant while serving at the highest level of Government.
The Taoiseach acknowledged legislative or even constitutional changes will be necessary to ensure other female ministers, or indeed TDs, are faced with a workable situation. “We want to make sure that having a family is in no way in conflict with pursuing a career in public life,” Mr Martin said.
The constitutional requirement for the Cabinet to be made up of strictly no more than 15 ministers is the main stumbling block to introducing a more permanent solution for ministerial maternity leave.