Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Likewise. We all want a better system for the appointment of judges and one that is clean, transparent and accountable. Sometimes people confuse bureaucracy with good regulation. One does not need more bureaucracy to have good regulation and practice. Members confuse the two dimensions a lot of the time in the Dáil.

In the normal run of things if a Deputy made the same proposal it would not reach Committee Stage because it would be ruled out of order by a money message before it even got here. I am conscious of the fact that I have heard the now Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, speak a lot about this matter over the past couple of years. I am very much in agreement with him that we probably have too much bureaucracy and too many quangos, which should be tackled. We need to do things efficiently and cleanly but that does not mean more bureaucracy and quangos.