Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I welcome that. It would be in the interest of the incumbents or the proposed appointees to be able to appear before an Oireachtas committee and give their view as to why they feel they would have a contribution to make. They can give an assessment of why they feel qualified to do the job. I agree it is difficult to get good people to serve on State boards and members of the Government must trawl through lists of names on the same panels regularly. The involvement of Oireachtas committees in this would be beneficial as it would be a public process and would allow those taking up duties to explain how they feel they can make a contribution to the State.

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