Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

That is the democratic process, limited and all as has been provided for by the Government.

We are talking about disgraceful jobbery where 110 people were stuffed by Fianna Fáil on to State boards, just as Fine Gael did previously, and their only qualification, for the most part, is that they were hacks of the political parties concerned. When will we have an end to this kind of cynicism?

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