Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For some, there is a view that people who have a political affiliation are somehow fast-tracked. We need to find a mechanism to stamp this out.

With regard to the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, I make the point that for the two judges who were removed and are no longer on the Bench, namely, former Judge Brian Curtin and former Judge Heather Perrin, no pre-screening process could have blocked out their activities. The Judicial Appointments Advisory Board needs to be reformed to remove the perception that judicial appointments are fast-tracked politically.

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