Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)

-----that the proposed solution to this problem was not just the advertising of these posts, which appeared to be cosmetic, but to interview the chairmen of various semi-State bodies in front of an Oireachtas committee. The problem is that the applicants can be utterly ignored by the Minister in charge, who can pick one of his or her pals just as Fianna Fáil did in the past.

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