Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister described these circumstances as normal, whereas we have already established that the circumstances were far from normal. I am not asking the Minister to divulge what happened at the Cabinet meeting. He indicated a memorandum arrived at the Cabinet meeting nominating the then Attorney General for the position. I am trying to find out what happened before that and how the name came to be submitted. Did the applicant go to the Minister or did the Minister go to the applicant? Was it a marriage of convenience because the real game in town was to get a new Attorney General to suit a change of leadership in the Fine Gael Party or was it to do with the position? If I were sitting at a Cabinet meeting and someone nominated me for a new job, I presume I would have been told beforehand that I would be nominated, as otherwise how would anyone know if I was available for the position? Who contacted whom between 16 May and 13 June?