Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am aware of the law, but that does not alter the fact that what we are now seeing is that other than on this one occasion nobody - I thought there was one other but I take it from the Chairman's helpful intervention that is not the case, has ever been appointed in this way outside the scope of a JAAB recommendation.

It is a fact, therefore, and not an inference on my part that this is an extraordinary circumstance and such an appointment has not been made previously within existing procedures. The facts bear out that contention.