Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The import of amendment No. 125 is to reduce the discretion of the commission and to provide information on the selection process via public information. I do not believe the amendment is necessary. The form of statements of selection procedures, and of the requisite skills and attributes approved by the commission, are under section 57 which provides for these always to be published in any event. Section 40 provides for discretion to provide further information on those statements through such means as the commission may consider appropriate. The issue of public information is already catered for in section 57 of the Bill.