Alan Farrell (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Dr. Carroll MacNeill has made a very good point on lay members. I wonder if it is the selection of the lay members that is important. Does it require strong characters and individuals who will speak their minds or is it simply the custom and practice of the JAAB that perpetuates the current situation? What mechanism is available to this committee or the Government to change how that occurs?