Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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I can deal with them in terms of section 7. I can be repetitive if people want me to be. I will stick directly to the amendment in this case, but it is the general thrust of the appointment process. We are now charging a person who is running the HSE, which has a budget of €13 billion every year, and we are saying there should be no open recruitment process. We are recruiting from an organisation that the Minister has previously described as dysfunctional and self-serving, and in the context of what Deputy Ó Caoláin and others said, there should be an open recruitment process for the director general and directors, and it should be done at one remove from this very constrained legislation. It is the case in almost every other area that a person who is charged with this kind of accountability would be appointed through the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act of 2004.