Ms Edge: Thank you, Mr Speaker.
The Minister did not actually advise as to who is paying for the commuting of the new CEO,
and he has talked about a recharge arrangement. My big concern is for the people of the Island:
are we failing the people of the Island by not having a CEO on the Island five days a week? The
last CEO did not appear to be able to do the job on site five days a week. I am just wondering
what is different with this particular role.
The Speaker: The Minister to reply.
The Minister: Mr Speaker, I have got to say, to make a statement like that and say we are
failing the people of the Island, to be quite frank, personally, I find quite outrageous.
We are very lucky in the individual that we have been able to get. We had a lot of high-calibre
applications and Kathryn Magson is an absolutely outstanding candidate.
To be perfectly honest, Mr Speaker, if you need a chief executive who needs to micromanage
so much that they have got to be sat in one physical office going out and about, then there is
something very fundamentally wrong.
I think we are very lucky to have the candidate we have, Mr Speaker, and the very fact that
her current employer is willing to do it as a secondment, I think speaks volumes for the calibre of
candidate that we have got in the fact that they want her back once this secondment is over.
You think David Ashford would learn by his mistakes, but he doesn't and thinks nothing is his fault, And I agree with him, I blame Howard Quayle and Alf Cannan for appointing the plonker. Also is Ms Edge clairvoyant.