Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a different process of making appointments to these important positions. Those remarks that I mentioned there were followed through by others to the inquiry here and you have all those on record. But this is an important change that the Government have brought about here where there is, you know, an application process, an examination-interview process and a scrutinising process of the capacity of people to fill these positions. Some are from abroad and some are from at home. It's a big change from what applied before where the vast majority of Central Bank Governors came from within the Department of Finance in a seamless transfer and, therefore, there couldn't be the, sort of, you know ... shall I say, appropriate relationship between two important entities.