Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This section deals with providing the new authority with the capacity to appoint consultants and advisers. While I can understand it, it is always good when one is drafting primary legislation to deal with potential circumstances that one might not have thought of in advance. What did the Government have in mind here? We are always concerned about consultants, particularly in light of some of the activities that have happened in the more recent past. I am not saying it is confined to this Government.