Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Selection Panel for Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Discussion
4:45 pm
Ms Emily O'Reilly:
Originally it was thought that we would meet in September but then we got derailed. As I just said to Senator Bacik, the design of this will be important. We will endeavour to do this as speedily as possible over the next few months but we really feel that the onus is on us to get it right. Once we get the design element done, then we can push ahead and, hopefully, work quite speedily. Obviously we must consider what the architecture of the process is going to be and we must give time for people, through the public forums, to respond to us and also to apply for the positions. We must give the applications a certain amount of time and then the interview process will follow. It will take a couple of months, I would imagine.