Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Mr. David Moloney:
The people who are appointed are appointed to act independently and I suppose we have to trust them to do that. Obviously, they are appointed by the relevant Minister or Government or both to the position. That is a question of trying to look around and see who is available with an expertise in any particular area. For State bodies, we have a State bodies appointments process now. There is a greater degree of transparency, hosted by the PAS, in relation to that. However, we are a relatively small country. By the time one is looking for something, a relatively particular piece of expertise and independence in that, there generally are not a large number of experts available.
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