Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I will make this point before those Deputies ask their questions. I am not in any way questioning the importance of knowing the Taoiseach or any appointments he has made. I am turning the point the other way in that I believe it would be in their interest and in the interest of service to public life that persons appointed as chairpersons or chief executives should be able to come before Dáil committees and explain their views as to the contribution they could make. It would not be an interrogative business but it would add to the status of the way they want to serve public life in that sense. The Bill has merit from that perspective.

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