Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have tabled about seven or eight amendments in this grouping. The points are much the same and I do not want to go over them again. As Deputy Daly just said, the broader and more diverse the group that makes up the commission, the better it will be all round. A few of my amendments involve deleting stuff to facilitate a situation where the chair is picked by the commission. I am not getting much support on this one. As I said before, I am not hung up on whether the chair is lay or legal but I just think the commission should pick the chair. We probably have not finalised exactly the full make up of the commission and the number because of the amendments we have gone through to date but I do think that allowing the commission to pick its own chair is a good idea. I cannot help it if not enough members agree with me. Most of the points have been made.