Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

Even under the current provisions, there is a job specification advertised through the Public Appointments Service. People apply. A committee, including independent people, would sit and evaluate the applications and a short-list would be created, which would then be sent to a Minister. Even though it does not say it in this legislation, those are the provisions of the code. That is how the system operates at present. If there were any changes to the code, that is how any new appointments would be handled.