Ms Shirley Comerford:

The purpose behind having the Irish-only panels is that we are looking for ways to attract people who want to work in Irish as well as people who have Irish and want to work in the general Civil Service. The idea behind it is that we are trying to expand the pool and to look for ways to encourage people to come forward and to engage with us through the Irish language, rather than having the Irish and English generalist panels combined.

We have situations, and Mr. Sinclair to my left is a good example of that, where he was on two panels, the Irish and English ones. He was appointed through the-----