Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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When it comes to appointment as an ambassador, these are jobs that are not generally advertised. They may be notified internally in the Department of Foreign Affairs. I can understand why they would not be advertised. In respect of someone who is going into an academic institution, the policy issue or the public concern voiced by many Members of the House of the Oireachtas was that if a Secretary General, or a very high-ranking civil servant, was going to go into a third level academic institution, that is all well and proper but there should be an opportunity for others to apply for the position being filled. What would Mr. Moloney say to that?