Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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We are discussing a group of ten amendments. The Minister is sticking with amendment No. 11. Does this include the chair or will the position of chair be in addition?

The initial concern was that the Minister, his office or his successor, when we all move on, would have too much influence in the appointing of members. The Minister has gone some way towards addressing those concerns. Can he confirm the Minister does not have a veto in terms of the nominees who are being offered by the prescribed bodies, such as the Bar Council, the Legal Aid Board, the King's Inns and the Law Society, and that the persons nominated by those bodies will be accepted, subject to the qualification criteria? Will he take us through what he is proposing in regard to the other six members in terms of the input the Minister of the day will have in the appointing of those people?