Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

-----stated that by submitting an expression of interest, the applicant accepts that the Minister is not obliged to consider the expressions of interest offered. One can apply but the Minister does not even have to look at the application. Is that any kind of a genuine democratic way to go? Is it not the reality that the political cronyism that dominated the appointments to boards in the past is still alive and well?

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