Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor David Farrell:
It is remarkable. I am old enough to remember when former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald appointed James Dooge to the Cabinet and the media frenzy that followed it. There was a fair bit of excitement and also criticism that he had dared to step over the heads of far more deserving Members of the Dáil to pick a Senator out of nowhere and make him the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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