Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Public Accounts Committee

National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011

10:30 am

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)
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They are paid out of public funds. Is this a satisfactory way of selection, whereby Ministers appoint people who have political connections first and then expertise of limited value? Would it not be better if public money was spent on people who are, quite obviously, not chosen for their political colour?