Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

In October 2009, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, indicated that mechanisms would have to be found and put in place to ensure that the "right people" would be appointed to State boards. We did not have long to wait to get an idea of what he was actually talking about when he referred to "right people" because shortly afterwards we saw the appointment of several failed local government candidates of the Green Party,-----

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