Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is probably not as much in terms of difference between Fine Gael and Sinn Féin as people think. The 2017 EU justice scoreboard, in a report published by the European Commission in April 2017, indicated that we were the second worst in Europe for Government interference in the appointment of judges. We will probably still be the second worst in Europe after the Bill is published. That is all I have to say.