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

Yes. My point is that there may be three or five candidates and they can be completely different and possess different skill sets. A court needs lots of different types of things at any given time and there are gaps in experience at different times. If these are being ranked and putting an onus on the Government to be accountable publicly in some way, and we get to how that discretion can be used, it really tightens the flexibility in appointing people. For example, we might need a criminal practitioner but have corporate practitioners in first and second place. A third candidate might have to be appointed for completely obvious reasons but how would that work? As Senator Ward asked, what would be the standing of that judge?