Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am just wondering what community is. A community representative is a nice expression, but what is community? What section? Are the entire State and all the millions of people in the community? Is it some sectional group of the community? Is it the community who are victims of crime? We need to be very careful. I have been listening to the exchange going back and forth. Some of the amendments have an underlying trend of complete mistrust of how people are appointed. It leaves out the logic of why sometimes appointments need to be made and the process that needs to be gone through to make them. I see phrases such as a community representative. What is a community representative? I would argue people elected to Dáil Éireann are the greatest example of community representatives. How, out of every type of community there is in our country, is somebody a community representative?