Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Taoiseach refers to my first question as an internal party matter. It is not an internal party matter. I am asking him about the programme for Government, which is the marriage contract - if one could elevate it to that status at all - between his party and the Green Party. One of the provisions in that programme for Government relates to appointments to public bodies. There is a commitment in the programme - part of which I just read out - about a more open and more transparent system for appointments to public bodies. It is something that was very welcome and was sought by the Green Party. Does that commitment include a commitment to a more open and transparent system for appointments to public bodies? Does that include the kind of jobs that Green Party members get in the Government, or jobs that they would like to get from people who are appointed by the Government?

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