Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is critically important that we look at this in a serious manner. The section gives the Minister of the day sweeping powers to dismiss a director, and a person who is appointed by whatever mechanism should be in a position where he or she does not feel beholden and can safely say to the Minister that the advice he or she is giving to the Minister is not in accordance with his or her wishes for stated reasons. When one couples that with the proviso regarding the Minister being in a position to-----