Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, Dr. O'Brien. There has always been provision for the Minister to notify the public through Iris Oifigiúilof any appointments off the list, as it were. I am delighted Dr. O'Brien could contribute because the research he did with Robert Hazell and Kate Malleson on the UK system provides a really important political counterpoint whereby politics was taken entirely out of that system. The narrative here has been one of reducing political influence, but I think Dr. O'Brien found that diversity had actually been better achieved through the political system. I think he pointed to the Supreme Court profile. It might be interesting to come back to some of that because the narratives are going in opposite directions, which is quite interesting in jurisdictions so similar.

We will move on to the next group: Dr. Laura Cahillane, Dr. Tom Hickey and Dr. David Kenny from the University of Limerick, Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin, respectively. They have five minutes. I am not sure who is going to present.