Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor David Farrell:
Yes, he was a retired Senator. This part of the culture needs to change. Another member asked me about external Ministers. It is more normal in other European systems to have Ministers who come from outside or, if they come from within parliament, they must vacate their seats to become a Minister. Part of the mix for fixing our political system which the Constitutional Convention proposed was to move in this direction.
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