Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

4:30 pm

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Billy Timmins is an independent voice. The other point in Deputy Fleming's amendment, which he did not reference, was the prioritising of candidates. That is not done by TLAC in the normal course. TLAC normally gives a Minister three names and simply deems them all to be qualified, so there is some flexibility for the Minister to make a discernment and I would like to give that same capability, in first instance, to the Ceann Comhairle and, in the second instance, to the commission to make a choice without stating an order of merit. That would be a better way to go about it.

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