Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What about the people who would have attended for other positions? This is where I started at the beginning about standardisation of procedures. What about people who would have gone forward for other competitions, for example, for the position of Secretary General in other Departments? Would they take the view that they have been in some way hard done by if it was decided arbitrarily that in this particular situation the position drew a higher salary scale?