Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will the Taoiseach, please, forget about the camouflage, the criteria and the bodies he put in the middle? Will he announce in this House that the problem has been ministerial appointments and that he intends, as a great reformer and part of a great reforming Government, to end the system whereby Ministers have the facility to appoint their friends and cronies to State bodies? Take it out of the political arena and we will then believe him. Say, "Yes, the system has ended" because he knows from what happened when on this side of the House and this side of the House knows from what is happening on the other side, that no Government has been able to resist the temptation of abusing this responsibility and that there is absolutely no reason to believe the camouflage about which we are about to hear will fulfil that objective.

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