Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

I happen to know the political allegiances of some of the people I appoint but I do not know the political allegiances of the vast majority of the people I appointed. In this case the Deputy should recall that I invited people to nominate themselves if they had an interest in this and I selected the people from the list of those who applied. I will examine that list again before I fill the remaining positions and if there are suitable people on that list, I will appoint them. If not, as the original list was for the DTA, I will try to find the most suitable people.

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